[ubuntu-uk] Dual Monitor set up NVIDIA Twinview

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Graham Smith <myotistwo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Liam,
>
>> and reboot, or is there something else I should be doing.
>>
>> Remember that you must be running as root to save from nvidia-settings.
>>
>> Personally, I run it from a terminal:
>>
>> $ sudo -s
>> # nvidia-settings
>>
>
>
> Thanks, that sounds like a good idea, but in fact it seems to have saved the
> settings in spite of complaining about it. It's now booting with both
> monitors.

If you ran it from System | Administration, it should have asked you
for your password. That's gksudo - the same as sudo but running
graphically.

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