Display settings not saving

Hello,

It’s not a critical problem but every time I reboot my PC, I have to redo my display settings everytime. I would like to know where display config are saved?
Should I use System Settings or Nvidia X server settings?

Here is my garuda-inxi

System:
Kernel: 6.6.7-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.2.1
clocksource: tsc available: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=78100126-603a-4cdb-b45c-0b95512a124a rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet loglevel=3 ibt=off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.10 tk: Qt v: 5.15.11 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2
dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ROG STRIX B760-F GAMING WIFI v: Rev 1.xx
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1402
date: 09/08/2023
Battery:
ID-1: hidpp_battery_0 charge: 51% condition: N/A volts: 3.8 min: N/A
model: Logitech G Pro Wireless Gaming Mouse type: N/A serial: <filter>
status: discharging
CPU:
Info: model: 13th Gen Intel Core i5-13600KF bits: 64 type: MST AMCP
arch: Raptor Lake gen: core 13 level: v3 note: check built: 2022+
process: Intel 7 (10nm) family: 6 model-id: 0xB7 (183) stepping: 1
microcode: 0x11D
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 14 mt: 6 tpc: 2 st: 8 threads: 20 smt: enabled
cache: L1: 1.2 MiB desc: d-8x32 KiB, 6x48 KiB; i-6x32 KiB, 8x64 KiB
L2: 20 MiB desc: 6x2 MiB, 2x4 MiB L3: 24 MiB desc: 1x24 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 963 high: 1100 min/max: 800/5100:3900 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 1100 2: 1100 3: 1100
4: 1100 5: 1100 6: 800 7: 1100 8: 1100 9: 1100 10: 1100 11: 1065 12: 1100
13: 800 14: 799 15: 800 16: 800 17: 800 18: 800 19: 800 20: 800
bogomips: 139776
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA102 [GeForce RTX 3080] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia
v: 545.29.06 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 545.xx+ status: current
(as of 2023-10; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx
process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-2023 pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s
lanes: 16 ports: active: none off: DP-1,DP-2 empty: DP-3,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2206 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.10 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.3
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 5120x1440 s-dpi: 92 s-size: 1413x393mm (55.63x15.47")
s-diag: 1467mm (57.74")
Monitor-1: DP-1 mapped: DP-0 note: disabled pos: primary,right
model: LG (GoldStar) 32GK850G serial: <filter> built: 2010 res: 2560x1440
dpi: 93 gamma: 1.2 size: 697x392mm (27.44x15.43") diag: 800mm (31.5")
ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 2560x1440 min: 640x480
Monitor-2: DP-2 note: disabled pos: left model: Acer XB271HK
serial: <filter> built: 2016 res: 2560x1440 hz: 60 dpi: 109 gamma: 1.2
size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23") diag: 686mm (27") ratio: 16:9 modes:
max: 3840x2160 min: 640x480
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2
drv: swrast gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia
inactive: wayland,device-1
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 545.29.06
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080/PCIe/SSE2
memory: 9.77 GiB
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.269 layers: 11 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 driver: nvidia v: 545.29.06
device-ID: 10de:2206 surfaces: xcb,xlib
Audio:
Device-1: Intel vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
alternate: snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:7a50
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GA102 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:1aef class-ID: 0403
Device-3: ASUSTek USB Audio driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-11:8
chip-ID: 0b05:1a52 class-ID: 0300
Device-4: Logitech Blue Microphones
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-9.4:14 chip-ID: 046d:0ab7 class-ID: 0300
serial: <filter>
API: ALSA v: k6.6.7-zen1-1-zen status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: N/A
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: N/A bus-ID: 00:14.3
chip-ID: 8086:7a70 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp0s20f3 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Ethernet I226-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: igc v: kernel
pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 07:00.0
chip-ID: 8086:125c class-ID: 0200
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX211 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-14:12 chip-ID: 8087:0033
class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.3
lmp-v: 12 status: discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 7c0104
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller Intel
driver: vmd v: 0.6 port: N/A bus-ID: 00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086:a77f rev:
class-ID: 0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 3.21 TiB used: 835.87 GiB (25.5%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Seagate model: FireCuda 530
ZP1000GM30023 size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B
speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: SU6SM003
temp: 29.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:2 vendor: Crucial model: CT500P3SSD8
size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: P9CR30A temp: 25.9 C
scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 850 EVO 500GB
size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 3B6Q scheme: GPT
ID-4: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Crucial model: CT525MX300SSD1
size: 489.05 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: R031 scheme: GPT
ID-5: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 QVO 1TB
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1B6Q scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 465.46 GiB size: 465.46 GiB (100.00%)
used: 63.85 GiB (13.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2 maj-min: 259:4
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 576 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme1n1p1 maj-min: 259:3
ID-3: /home raw-size: 465.46 GiB size: 465.46 GiB (100.00%)
used: 63.85 GiB (13.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2 maj-min: 259:4
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 465.46 GiB size: 465.46 GiB (100.00%)
used: 63.85 GiB (13.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2 maj-min: 259:4
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 465.46 GiB size: 465.46 GiB (100.00%)
used: 63.85 GiB (13.7%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2 maj-min: 259:4
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 31.15 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
comp: zstd avail: lzo,lzo-rle,lz4,lz4hc,842 max-streams: 20 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 33.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 49 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Info:
Processes: 454 Uptime: 6m wakeups: 0 Memory: total: 32 GiB
available: 31.15 GiB used: 4.89 GiB (15.7%) Init: systemd v: 255
default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.2.1 Packages: 1861
pm: pacman pkgs: 1851 libs: 523 tools: octopi,pamac,paru,yay pm: flatpak
pkgs: 10 Shell: fish v: 3.6.4 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.31
Garuda (2.6.19-2):
System install date:     2023-12-08
Last full system update: 2023-12-14
Is partially upgraded:   No
Relevant software:       snapper NetworkManager dracut nvidia-dkms
Windows dual boot:       No/Undetected
Failed units:

I prefer to use the system settings rather than NVIDIA control panel because occasionally the NVIDIA settings will go wonky with an update.

Either will work, but don’t try and use both at the same time.

ALright, any idea with my system setting are reseting at every reboot?

Where are you trying to set them? In NVIDIA settings or your Display Settings?

If NVIDIA settings, it’s likely you’re not saving the config in the right place. You need to run nvidia-settings as root to be able to save the config.

I’m trying in NVIDIA setting but I launch it via the GUI. I’ll try in root.

Thank you

Still doesn’t work I’m out of ideas :sweat_smile:

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