Under Maverick, I experienced no problems with the stock screensaver. Unfortunately, with Natty I have experienced a regression to the "fade to black and then back to desktop" issue whenever I use caffeine to disable the screensaver, and then sometime later use it to re-enable the screensaver. I am reapplying my patch from comment 21, and will report whether that fixes the situation.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-screensaver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241206 Title: Gnome Screensaver does not activate reliably -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
