the fact that you get the same issue on different softwares suggests it would rather be a gnome-screensaver bug
-- idle/screensaver inhibition feature doesn't work reliably in karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/448438 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs