Bug#953816: nvidia-settings: query status of attached displays + query monitoring/daemon mode

[Alex Andreotti]

Package: nvidia-settings
Version: 440.64-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?

1) I have a second monitor (DVI) which is always connected to the video card, but it is not always on, I have not found a way with nvidia-settings to detect if the second monitor is physically on or off.

2) I run nvidia-settings -t -q ... every few seconds to monitor the status of the card, I thought it would be useful to have a command line option for nvidia-settings that does not end it immediately, but that continues to re- run the query every n seconds.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

Thanks
Regards

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages nvidia-settings depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.29-10
ii  libcairo2                 1.16.0-4
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.40.0+dfsg-3
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.64.0-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                3.24.14-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.32-4
ii  libjansson4               2.12-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.42.4-8
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0       1.42.4-8
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.9-2
ii  libxnvctrl0               440.64-1
ii  libxxf86vm1               1:1.1.4-1+b2
ii  nvidia-alternative        440.64-1
ii  nvidia-installer-cleanup  20151021+11

Versions of packages nvidia-settings recommends:
ii  libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx  440.64-1
ii  libnvidia-ml1            440.64-1
ii  nvidia-vdpau-driver      440.64-1

nvidia-settings suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information