I am seeing the same bug and I don't have gnome-screensaver running. I have set the display to go to sleep after 1 minute but it never does. Looking at the xset values they are all at 0:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xset q | grep -A3 ^DPMS DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 0 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On Does gnome-power-manager set the values queried by xset? -- g-p-m failing to use DPMS to power off display https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/34233 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs