nvidia-settings .desktop file

[Richard Laager]

Binary package hint: nvidia-glx

Shouldn't there be a .desktop file, with an appropriate nvidia icon, for the nvidia-settings tool so that it'll show up in my menus somewhere?

For example, the following website lists one (search for nvidia-settings): http://ubuntuguide.org/

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

The attached desktop file was lightly modified from that previously provided by the nvidia-settings package. Please also see bug#22297 regarding an icon.

[Alexander van Loon (avanloon)]

I think it would be a good idea to get this bug (and bug #22297 too) fixed upstream as well, on nvidia's Linux driver page - http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-8756.html - the following is written:

"If you have any questions or problems, please check the linux discussion forum. If you don't find an answer to your question there, you can send email (in English) to <email address hidden>."

So maybe it would be a good idea that the Ubuntu dev's contact nvidia to get these two bugs fixed?

[VF (vfiend)]

I think it might be a problem in the Ubuntu/Debian packages, considering I installed the new beta drivers using nvidia's installer program and it added a menu entry with an icon just fine.

[Ernst Persson (ernstp)]

Yes, nvidias installer script adds a menu icon, but this is not avaliable in the ubuntu package.

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

Removed "bitesize packaging" tags. This needs a discussion with nvidia to use their icon.

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

This looks like a dup of bug #22297 ...

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

This and bug 22297 are related,but slightly different. When the nvidia-settings binary was moved from the nvidia-settings package to linux-restricted-modules, the .desktop file was not also moved, causing this bug. No patch has been prepared for this in the interest of avoiding a icon bug (like 22297) for linux-restricted-modules as a result of the integration of a .desktop file. Note that 22297 is now somewhat obsolete, as the nvidia-settings package conflicts with linux-restricted-modules, and cannot be installed for normal use when only using software from current Ubuntu repositories.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Still an issue with 2.6.24. The upstream installers include the necessary files, so they should be distributable.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 - 2.6.24.8-7.18

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linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 (2.6.24.8-7.18) hardy; urgency=low

  * Update nvidia -> 96.43.05, nvidia-legacy -> 71.86.04.
  * nvidia*: Add the desktop file and png for nvidia-settings.
    (LP: #44897)
  * Added DVB firmware files:
    - dvb-usb-wt220u-fc03.fw (LP: #91415)
    - dvb-usb-wt220u-zl0353-01.fw (LP: #61181)
    - dvb-usb-dib0700-1.10.fw (LP: #179626, #95277)
  * Add atieventsd -initscript to xorg-driver-fglrx. (LP: #58785)

 -- Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:42:42 +0200

[Ernst Persson (ernstp)]

This is probably fixed in Baltix now also?