"...how long to wait for the bug to arise?" I did not measure it, but about a minute seems to consistently reproduce the behavior for me using Pacman which, as you stated, is not a default screensaver.
Regarding the hardware, could it be related to using a USB mouse vs. a PS/2 mouse? I am using a USB mouse but I would think that would be abstracted to the screensaver. Unfortunately I do not have a test machine available at the moment, so I cannot help test in Karmic. Thanks for looking into this for being a papercut, mac_v. If you cannot easily reproduce it, it would seem it is not a papercut. -- 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