If you need to have gnome-screensaver running shouldn't g-p-m check to see that it's running?
With gnome-screensaver running my monitor still doesn't enter standy although the screensaver now starts. -- g-p-m failing to use DPMS to power off display https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/34233 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs