I've searched many times for an answer but have NEVER found a good and proper answer that fixes this annoying problem when using Nvidia drivers for Linux.
Everytime I reboot the system, nvidia-settings creates a NEW xorg.conf file, backing up my own configuration settings in the process. What I want is to STOP nvidia-settings from doing this and just READ my xorg.conf configuration file.
On every reboot I have my xorg.conf file in /etc/X11/ -> reboot system /etc/X11/ then has xorg.conf <- nvidia-settings replacement, my xorg.conf backed up to be like this -> xorg.conf.4023473. Everytime I have to go into /etc/X11/ directory to delete the one nvidia-settings created and put my one back as the main one again before logging.
Previous unsatisfactory answers I've come across are people saying edit nvidia-settings to read-only, but don't explain to edit what exactly. Edit the binary executable which is just garbled junk? add a parameter to the executable or what? I need answers to this.
I just need nvidia-settings to just read-config not create a new one of it's own accord. Changing the read-write permissions for Xorg.conf doesn't work because nvidia-settings runtime level is system level and can override permissions. I have no idea how many times this questions been asked, but a proper detailed satisfactory answer has never been posted before.