The screensaver fades twice

[Henrik Nilsen Omma]

First it fades slowly and then just as it becomes completely black, it jumps back out to full brightness again and fades again but this time more quickly.

I'm running Dapper i386 in and AMD64 system with an nvidia GeForce4 MX 4000 card, using the Free drivers.

[Gaëtan Petit (gaetanp)]

i can confirm this on both of my computers
>>>laptop and desktop, nvidia and ati, kernel 686 and 686-smp

i set this to confirmed

[Gaëtan Petit (gaetanp)]

i'v just noticed that the fade of GKSU do the same 'double fade' bug

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

if thats the case, please file a bug against gksu

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

I'm getting this too, but oddly enough, I don't get the double fading when executing 'gnome-screensaver-command --activate'.

[William Jon McCann (mccann)]

Can you try the patch attached to:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333180

Thanks.

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

tried that, but it seems it breaks "gnome-screensaver-command --lock", the screen doesnt lock at all with that patch unless the gconf key is set

[William Jon McCann (mccann)]

You discovered a different bug that I've now fixed in CVS HEAD and 2-14. Does the patch on 333180 work now?

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

will try, thanks a lot

[Adriaan Peeters (apeeters)]

Yes, that patch fixes the double fade bug. The --lock parameter does not lock the screen however, as in the comment by Oliver.

I applied the patch on the 2.14.1-0ubuntu2 version of gnome-screensaver.

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

the fix should be included upstream in 2.15.x does it still occur for anyone with that version in edgy ?

[Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)]

I haven't seen this on any edgy computers lately. Marking Fixed.