Comment 10 for bug 467285

OK, that makes sense, in a way. With gnome-screensaver running (invoked from the terminal), I got no screensaver after idle for over an hour.

The sudden change still puzzles me; I certainly didn't trigger it by disabling gnome-screensaver in Startup recently, so maybe the updated version didn't get set up correctly. Or maybe I had removed it long ago and the X screensaver only just started working yesterday.....

It's also strange that uninstalling gnome-screensaver prevents the other (X) screensaver from activating. Or is that because removing gnome-screensaver also removes xscreensaver?

Anyway, thanks for the help; I'll figure out how to get things set up so that I don't have to have gnome-screensaver running just to prevent X screensaver from taking over.....