Comment 6 for bug 18595

IMHO, changing the settings of gnome-screensaver at the start of the session is not the right way to do so: when you will leave the session you may forget to set back the gconf setting and loose your nice screensaver the next time you log on a non-ltsp session. It may be a corner case (I know it is not a problem for me) but it does not look right to me...

Why not making gnome-screensave just ignore its settings when running a LTSP session ?

on a related note, the same could be applied to other graphic-intensive things like the fade-out effect of the logout dialog :)