Forcing Manjaro Cinnamon to use dedicated Nvidia GPU

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@ZaeNae

I truncated a bit at the end

Sorry! I should have asked for glxinfo | head

@ZaeNae

server glx vendor string: SGI

That should read:

server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation

And as you’re on Cinnamon and I’m on KDE, I don’t know where to go from here except…

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