Well, apparently this has to do with if dpms is disabled under monitor&display settings in kde, if this is disabled then the screensavers dont' work right, even if DPMS is turned on/off by another program later.
Still working on weather or not this is related to my kdesktop crash that seems to have something to do with dpms as well. -- kdesktop screensavers don't work if dpms disabled https://launchpad.net/bugs/98681 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
