I can confirm this bug, though for me using the keyboard does prevent
the screen from fading no matter which screen I'm on.  I actually came
upon this bug by accident, as I had mainly only used my second screen
for games (keypad doesn't prevent the screensaver anyway) and MPlayer
(which disable the screensaver).  To deal with my screensaver problems I
tried a simple script to disable the screensaver upon opening the
selected program and re-enabling it once opened.

What I found through that is that when I returned to my main display, if
I was only moving my mouse it wouldn't prevent the screensaver, while
moving it to the secondary display did.  To summarize, I found that it
wasn't only activity on :0.0 that was preventing the screensaver from
activating, but from whichever display ran gnome-screensaver (which by
default is generally :0.0).  To confirm, try this:

Run:

gnome-screensaver-command --exit

(To terminate the default session) and then on any secondary display
run:

gnome-screensaver

And the bug should be on opposite screens as it was before.

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Screensaver does not recognize activity on 2nd screen
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/93466
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