Nvidia-settings are not saved

[Snowhog]

That two admins are contradicting each other does add to the confusion.

Being a forum Admin doesn't imply being a Linux/Kubuntu/KDE/Plasma/... 'expert'. My reply to claydoh was based on how "I" perceived his post, which on reflection and review a second (and third) time, was incorrect.

[claydoh]

While I don't have an nvidia card (Intel HD Graphics), the xorg.conf is located at:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xorg.conf

It's empty, and interestingly, its file date is Aug 23 (2022).

Maybe they changed things up?
Historically, the xorg.conf file belongs in /etc/X11/
Then, they added the /xorg.conf.d directory for custom, individual options, when having an xorg.conf file was no longer a requirement (as things became auto-configured). This is where the small xx-some-custom-option.conf files would reside.

I don't have an xorg.conf file on any of my systems at all (Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm (arm)), and only one system with a file in /xorg.conf.d/ , 00-keyboard.conf, probably as I had at some point was adding and removing various keyboard layouts in the past.


In any case, the nvidia-settings tool apparently doesn't save configs to these directories at all, but to ~/.nvidia-settings-rc because of course Nvidia don't use the standard directories
(but the https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/man1/nvidia-settings.1.html]manpage, section #3 sort of describes why)
I stopped using nvidia cards about 3 or 4 years ago specifically because of these sort of shenanigans, obviously I seem to have outdated info even though I try to keep up with it.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xorg.conf just screamed to me an incorrect file/path, apparently it is now a valid one.

It of course has no bearing on Nvidia's official tool not being able to save settings, no matter where they are located. The tool is/was *supposed* to prompt for a password when saving to the system-wide xorg.conf file file as opposed to the user's local configurations.
And there seems to be about 5 different 'solutions' per person per incident of this sort of thing.

Still this is getting more confusing. That two admins are contradicting each other does add to the confusion.

Well admin status on a forum does not equate to me being an expert on any particular topic

[Fred-VIE]

Well admin status on a forum does not equate to me being an expert on any particular topic :

Should have asked Jeeves