[Bug 498366] [NEW] built-in X.Org screensaver always activates in Xubuntu after 10 minutes

[Ryan Armstrong]

Public bug reported:

With Karmic no longer having an Xorg.conf, the default screen saver
capabilities (blanking the screen after 10 minutes) of X.org are
enabled.

This can be seen by running "xset q". Under "Screen Saver" a fresh
install of Xubuntu Karmic will show a timeout of 600 seconds (10
minutes) for the built-in XOrg blanking screen saver. If I look at a
reasonably-standard Jaunty install, the timeout is already set to 0 (as
it should be).

Regardless of how you change the screensaver settings in gnome-
screensaver or the power settings in xfce-power-manager, this Screen
Saver is not disabled and will blank the screen after 10 minutes. The
only way to currently disable the screensaver in Xubuntu is to create an
xorg.conf and add:

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option		"BlankTime"	"0"
EndSection

Note that when I was trying a fresh install in VirtualBox, the actual
screensaver wasn't coming on, even though the timeout values is clearly
visible. I suspect the guest additions were interfering in some manner
(the screen saver certainly activates on my Eee PC).

** Affects: xubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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built-in X.Org screensaver always activates in Xubuntu after 10 minutes
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