Nvidia-open && nvidia-settings?

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G’day,

Does anyone know if nvidia-settings is available for the nvidia-open?

I think nvidia-open is working ( actually not sure how to confirm to be honest ), and it is not crashing, and generally pretty good.

The problem is my wide 49" screen isn’t really being detected correctly, so the aspect ratio and window borders are kinda screwed up. On Ubuntu, using nvidia-settings I was able to fix it up ( and a smarter person than I would have backed up that config ).

For reference the nvidia config starts about here
https://github.com/randomizedcoder/nixos/blob/3e50b9df2377b602250c9fbc10b5829519e25736/t/configuration.nix#L90

[das@t:~]$ uname -a
Linux t 6.10.3 #1-NixOS SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Aug  3 07:01:09 UTC 2024 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[das@t:~]$ neofetch
          ▗▄▄▄       ▗▄▄▄▄    ▄▄▄▖            das@t 
          ▜███▙       ▜███▙  ▟███▛            ----- 
           ▜███▙       ▜███▙▟███▛             OS: NixOS 24.05.3642.883180e6550c (Uakari) x86_64 
            ▜███▙       ▜██████▛              Host: LENOVO 20TJS07300 
     ▟█████████████████▙ ▜████▛     ▟▙        Kernel: 6.10.3 
    ▟███████████████████▙ ▜███▙    ▟██▙       Uptime: 3 days, 1 hour, 10 mins 
           ▄▄▄▄▖           ▜███▙  ▟███▛       Packages: 1096 (nix-system), 1554 (nix-user) 
          ▟███▛             ▜██▛ ▟███▛        Shell: bash 5.2.26 
         ▟███▛               ▜▛ ▟███▛         Resolution: 3840x2160, 3840x2160, 3840x1080 
▟███████████▛                  ▟██████████▙   DE: GNOME 46.2 (Wayland) 
▜██████████▛                  ▟███████████▛   WM: Mutter 
      ▟███▛ ▟▙               ▟███▛            WM Theme: Adwaita 
     ▟███▛ ▟██▙             ▟███▛             Theme: Nordic [GTK2/3] 
    ▟███▛  ▜███▙           ▝▀▀▀▀              Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3] 
    ▜██▛    ▜███▙ ▜██████████████████▛        Terminal: kitty 
     ▜▛     ▟████▙ ▜████████████████▛         Terminal Font: monospace 11.0 
           ▟██████▙       ▜███▙               CPU: Intel i9-10885H (16) @ 5.300GHz 
          ▟███▛▜███▙       ▜███▙              GPU: NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Mobile / Max-Q 
         ▟███▛  ▜███▙       ▜███▙             Memory: 15710MiB / 31920MiB 
         ▝▀▀▀    ▀▀▀▀▘       ▀▀▀▘

Thanks in advance,
Dave

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Yes, I use it all the time. Is the binary/desktop file not working?

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Thanks Tlater

I’ve tried to enable it here
https://github.com/randomizedcoder/nixos/blob/3e50b9df2377b602250c9fbc10b5829519e25736/t/configuration.nix#L117

But if I type “nv” and tab, this is all I get

[das@t:~]$ nv
nvcc      nvdisasm  nvlc      nvlink    nvprune   

[das@t:~]$ nvidia-settings
nvidia-settings: command not found

[das@t:~]$
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https://github.com/randomizedcoder/nixos/blob/3e50b9df2377b602250c9fbc10b5829519e25736/t/configuration.nix#L128

videoDrivers = [
  "nvidia"
  # if switching between both
  # "intel"
];

I also think that on wayland, nvidia-settings would be limited / not working as expected.

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It’s a bit limited, but nvidia have been adding features. I don’t think it can manage resolution, though, your compositor needs to mange that.