screensaver starts immediatly when on 'Never'

[Fabio Marconi]

Hello
If the screensaver setting is on 'never' it starts immedialy.
Reproduced on two fully updated systems.
Thanks
Fabio

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 1 21:42:19 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110823)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-03 (28 days ago)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 deja-dup 20.0-0ubuntu3
 gnome-bluetooth 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
 indicator-datetime 0.3.0-0ubuntu1

[Lambros Lambrou (lambros)]

This is really irritating. As a workaround, I've removed the gnome-screensaver package, in the hope that'll prevent the screensaver ever kicking in.

My problem is, I want to play full-screen OpenGL games, possibly for longer than 1 hour at a time :) I can't trust that the game will inhibit the screen-saver, which is why I always disable it. This is apparently not possible in Oneiric, due to this bug.

[Lokard (darkdadaah)]

Maybe this should be considered a duplicate of : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/841345

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue got fixed since