OK, that makes sense, in a way. With gnome-screensaver running (invoked from the terminal), I got no screensaver after idle for over an hour.
The sudden change still puzzles me; I certainly didn't trigger it by disabling gnome-screensaver in Startup recently, so maybe the updated version didn't get set up correctly. Or maybe I had removed it long ago and the X screensaver only just started working yesterday..... It's also strange that uninstalling gnome-screensaver prevents the other (X) screensaver from activating. Or is that because removing gnome- screensaver also removes xscreensaver? Anyway, thanks for the help; I'll figure out how to get things set up so that I don't have to have gnome-screensaver running just to prevent X screensaver from taking over..... -- screensaver preferences ignores my unchecked box https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/467285 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
