I am suffering from this same problem. Using 8.10 Final. The workaround fixed everything - but it took me forever to find this bug report. This needs to be updated in the repos soon.
Thanks to the developers, I panicked there for a sec... -- nvidia-settings crashes when user clicks Save To X Configuration File https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286424 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs