Paul Gress wrote:
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> I plugged the external monitor in after all booted up and logged in.
> Opened nvidia-settings, did not see the external monitor. I rebooted
> the computer with it attached then nvidia-settings was able to see the
> external monitor. Is there a way to allow the external monitor to be
> found without a reboot?
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On the X Server Display Configuration screen, choose the Detect Displays
button. This does a rescan for any displays which have been hot plugged
since boot. Restarting the X server or rebooting is not required.