In the hope that it can help as per previous comment, here are some steps for reproducing:
- in gnome-power-preferences, set the screen to blank after 1 minute of inactivity - (optional?): in gnome-screensaver-preferences, set the session to go idle/screensaver to activate at 1 minute Now, logout and login (to make sure you have a clean session). Then: 1. do nothing for 2 minutes. The screen should blank. If you have empathy running, the status should become "Away" 2. move the mouse or type something, the session becomes active again 3. to break this normal cycle, open any image (with the default image viewer, eog), go in fullscreen (F11) or slideshow mode (F5), the message 'Method "InhibitActivation" with signature "s" on interface "org.gnome.ScreenSaver" doesn't exist' will be printed in the terminal if you ran it from a terminal.** 4. close eog* 5. wait as long as you want, the session will not go idle. *: step 3 can (at the time I am writing this) be tested also by playing any movie with totem, then exiting totem **: for some reason, this happens on my generic desktop machine, but not on my lpia netbook. -- idle/screensaver inhibition feature doesn't work reliably in karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/448438 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
