I have traced this down to the fact that nautilus is not launched when I
log on to gnome. I used ps -A | grep naut to show this.
* Running nautilus manually through a terminal window shows my Desktop
icons.
* Adding nautilus to System - Preferences - Startup Applications
causes nautilus to
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nautilus
Starting nautilus on command line gives the error: 'WARNING **: Unable
to add monitor: Not supported.
Running 9.04 RC, updated 04/18 about 9 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25708261/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: ProcMaps.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25708262/ProcMaps.txt
** Attachment added: ProcStatus.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25708263/ProcStatus.txt
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does not
Same thing here. Two observations may help debug this problem.
1) if I wait long enough for the monitor to go into hardware sleep,
moving the mouse kills the screensaver.
2) Mouse motion kills the screensaver if it comes on while the log on
screen is up.
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screensaver won't release with mouse