Bug#538694: gnome-screensaver: Only works with gnome-session?

[Tony Houghton]

Package: gnome-screensaver
Version: 2.26.1-2
Severity: normal


I've noticed the same thing. I usually use a ROX desktop managed by
ROX-Session instead of GNOME. When I tried a more standard GNOME desktop
the screensaver appeared to work correctly. When starting
gnome-screensaver in ROX-Session I get this message:

** (gnome-screensaver:3595): WARNING **: Failed to get session presence proxy: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SessionManager': no such name

So I think gnome-screensaver now depends on gnome-session. I hope this
can be reverted because the combo of gnome-screensaver and
gnome-power-manager is more flexible for laptops thanxscreensaver.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                      1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gconf2                        2.26.2-2   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme              2.26.0-1   GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gnome-session                 2.26.2-1   The GNOME Session Manager
ii  libc6                         2.9-20     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                     1.8.8-2    The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.80-4     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.26.2-2   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]      7.4.4-1    A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglade2-0                   1:2.6.4-1  library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.20.4-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-11         2.26.1-1   Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome-menu2                2.26.1-2   an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnomekbd3                  2.26.0-1   GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.16.4-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2.1 0.4.5-1    sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpam0g                      1.0.1-9    Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.24.4-1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.2.1-1  X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                      2:1.0.4-1  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxklavier12                 3.9-1      X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxxf86misc1                 1:1.0.1-3  X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extensio
ii  libxxf86vm1                   1:1.0.2-1  X11 XFree86 video mode extension l

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver recommends:
ii  gnome-power-manager           2.24.4-3   power management tool for the GNOM
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring          2.26.1-1   PAM module to unlock the GNOME key
ii  rss-glx                       0.9.0-2    Really Slick Screensavers GLX Port

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver suggests:
pn  xscreensaver-data             <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information