So far my experience with Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) has been great. I find it noticeably quicker as well as more attractive visually. That’s not to say that it is without issues. For example, after the upgrade the “lock screen” function was broken. After digging around a bit and trying to lock the screen from the command line I found the following:
user@interphero:~$ gnome-screensaver-command –lock
** Message: Screensaver is not running!
user@interphero:~$
The “lock screen” functionality is part of gnome-screensaver, and for some reason, gnome-screensaver was no longer being started with Gnome. I fixed this by adding gnome-screensaver as a startup application by going to Main Menu->System->Preferences->Startup Applications.
thank you very much, it fixed my problem .
Thanks! I had the same problem, and this fixed it.
Thanks
Hi, many thanks
fixed my problem too.
I suppose this problem has more in it, apparently it solved afer running this command from the console, but i dont think in my case the screensaver was not loading. because i tried screen saver settings, and even set screen saver time to a longer duration although that dint help but it is evident that screensaver was loaded,
In my opinion there happens something wrong with the screensaver timer and causes the screensaver to be launched arbitrarily irrespective of the mouse and keyboard activity on the console.