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[Brian <22007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

@xfx:

This seems to work partially for me on:
$ uname -srvmo
Linux 2.6.35-30-generic #59-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 30 19:00:03 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

(Maverick Meerkat)

I have gnome-screensaver installed, and I also had to install gnome-
desktop-sharp2 after seeing an error referencing "gnomedesktop-sharp"
when I tried to run screensaver-settings from the terminal. Once I
installed gnome-desktop-sharp2 I was able to start screensaver-settings
from the terminal and the GUI interface seemed to work fully.

However, I set the time to activate the screensaver to "1" (minute?) and
did not see the screensaver activate. I tried both with and without
gnome-screensaver installed. Did not try with xscreensaver installed.
Also, the interface did not seem to get the cycle delay for randomly
chosen screensavers to stick. I have not done a reboot or log out/in.
Got work to do, can't interrupt that.

For now I am going back to xscreensaver, but thanks for the work you've
done on this. I think getting Canonical to help might be tough because
of Mono/C#. But certainly would be great to figure out what packages are
required for this to work, and a quick overview of installation/use
would help. I'd recommend setting up a vanilla VM under VirtualBox, for
example, and seeing what has to be done to get this working correctly.

Of course this bug still wouldn't be solved since gnome-screensaver
itself is forever completely broken, but at least there would be a
workaround.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/22007

Title:
  no 'Settings' button in gnome-screensaver

Status in GNOME Screensaver:
  Won't Fix
Status in NULL Project:
  Invalid
Status in “gnome-screensaver” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  There is no settings button in gnome-screensaver, thus I am unable to
  change the settings for any screensaver.

  Note: this bug is marked, upstream, as "won't fix."  Here is the given
  explanation why:
  http://live.gnome.org/GnomeScreensaver/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#head-
  64ef29e28226e09a3b849d8f00726cc004625c62

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