Awe, oh well. I'm not sure I am convinced it is hardware specific. People with nvidia, ati, and intel drivers have all reported it in the comments.
I just did a quick test because it used to happen on my machine but doesn't anymore. However, it's one of the first things my wife ran into on the machine I recently built her. SpirographX seems to correctly respond to mouse movement. The screensaver Pacman does not. Make sure you wait for the screensaver to run for a little bit because if you move it soon it will work correctly. -- screensaver won't release with mouse movement https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273142 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-screensaver in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs