Screen Saver Leaves Panels Visible Why? **SOLVED**

[Colin Law]

On 28 January 2013 11:11, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> On 01/28/2013 03:40 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 28 January 2013 00:48, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> By examining the entry in synaptic (should always be part of the install)
>>> I
>>> discovered that the gonme-screensaver was installed once I removed it
>>> things
>>> started working properly.
>>>
>>> Suggestion to  the developers -- when xscreensaver is installed remove
>>> gnome-screensaver.
>>
>>
>> How did you install xscreensaver?
>>
>> Colin
>>
> Colin,
>
> It was installed AFIK during the Upgrade to 12.04-1 LTS from 10.04-4 LTS
> using the update manager. There was not a separate install that I did.
>
> Please refer to my OP to see how it was enabled, if that is a question also.

Ok, so you originally installed it in 10.04 and then you upgraded to
12.04.  My guess would be that it was the upgrade process that did not
go right.  You should report a bug describing the problem, using
ubuntu-bug xscreensaver

Colin