ok i am a bit new to ubuntu so i was stuck. It seems in order to kill the screen saver you have to issue sudo killall gnome-screensaver again after doing sudo chmod -x /usr/bin/gnome-screensaver
so this seems to be the temporary workaround for now. -- X crashes screen goes between blank and black and white straps. display https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/575982 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
