Under Maverick, I experienced no problems with the stock screensaver. Unfortunately, with Natty I have experienced a regression to the "fade to black and then back to desktop" issue whenever I use caffeine to disable the screensaver, and then sometime later use it to re-enable the screensaver. I am reapplying my patch from comment 21, and will report whether that fixes the situation.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241206 Title: Gnome Screensaver does not activate reliably -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs