Re: gnome doesn't know monitor size under nvidia x server

[Yaro Kasear <yaro@marupa.net>]

On 07/28/2012 04:14 PM, Robert Holtzm wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 03:43:15PM -0500, Yaro Kasear wrote:
>
>               .........snip.......
> > Since the official (And proprietary.) nVidia driver has no support
> > for KMS, this sort of feature never "natively" works in a desktop
> > environments' own monitor settings. My recommendation is to install
> > nVidia's settings utility and use that, since it WILL accurately
> > report both monitors and their resolution.
> I see a number of nVidia packages that could be the one you're referring
> to, ie nvidia-settings, nvidia-smi and nvidia-xconfig. One of these or
> another?

Oh! Forgive me. That would be nvidia-settings. It's actually a pretty 
neat utility, worth looking at!