Since I already have fixed this by running the command XSET S NOBLANK at the terminal what would be accomplished by "reinstalling from synaptic gnome-screensaver", whatever that is ?
If I uncheck those 2 boxes at the screensaver screen, this should be sufficient to keep the BLANK screen saver from kicking in. Since unchecking these 2 boxes does NOT accomplished the desired results, that tells me that there is some type of BUG in this section of this O/S which needs to be fixed, so that merely unchecking these 2 boxes would keep the BLANK screen saver from being deployed when there is no activity. I have installed several of the latter version of Ubuntu numerous times and the result is always the same, unchecking these 2 boxes does NOT do what unchecking them is intended to do. I think that when I go way back to Jaunty, this problem does NOT occur. So that tells me that this is a bug that has been written into the later versions of Ubuntu which needs to be fixed. Since I am not a Linux or any other type of programmer, I have ZERO knowledge as to what the problems (or how to fix it) is except to say that a guess would be that it is somehow related to the particular type of hardware that is being used on the installed system since you say that it works fine for you. It's not like I do not know how to uncheck these boxes nor should I really have to do anything but that to get this to work !!! I would be more than happy to provide the exact hardware components that I am using if anyone is interested in trying to duplicate this issue to verify and then come up with a "PROPER" fix for this. Anyone interested in specs or in trying to fix this can contact me at joverstre...@verizon.net. And also, I would not say that because Fabio is not able to duplicate this, necessarily means that this problem is not being experienced by any other users. This type of thing really puts me off to recommending this O/S to other persons. Please don't tell me that it isn't really that important in the grand scheme of things, because if you told someone that you were trying to convince to use Ubuntu that sorry unchecking these buttons will really not work properly, they would promptly tell you to go soak your head and probably rightly so !!! Thanks. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-screensaver in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/714015 Title: blank screen saver buttons do NOT work -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
