ok i am a bit new to ubuntu so i was stuck. It seems in order to kill the screen saver you have to issue sudo killall gnome-screensaver again after doing sudo chmod -x /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver
so this seems to be the temporary workaround for now. -- X crashes screen goes between blank and black and white straps. display https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/575982 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
