Multi-monitor Xorg nVidia on Ubuntu 10.10 without root?

Question

Here at work we just set up a Ubuntu Terminal Server, All of our workstations have multiple monitors, of different sizes, 2-3 screens and varying nVidia video card models, but they all are nvidia. I at least have been using Twin-View. But I don't want to have to log in every day and set up Twin-View with nvidia-settings first thing. Is there a way to set up Twin-View from a configuration file? or possibly a startup script? I don't have root access to the TS, however if we could find a one size fits all xorg.conf configuration that makes multi-monitor just work on every machine then I might be able to convince the TS admin.

Answer 1

As described in the “Loading Settings Automatically” section of the nvidia-settings(1) man page you can save the nvidia-settings configuration to a user config file and then call nvidia-settings to load it automatically from your .xinitrc, .xsession, or whatever your desktop session startup uses.