Bug#547868: gnome-screensaver: Not showing screensavers when using compiz?

[Manuel Bilderbeek]

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


I've set up the program to show a random screensaver after 5 minutes of
idle time.

What happens: after 5 minutes the screen fades to black and no
screensaver is started (as far as I know). It is really really really
not set to "Blank screen". Preview does show screensavers, although some
are very slow.

At home it works fine. But here, I'm using compiz. Could that be
related?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

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

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver depends on:
ii  dbus-x11                      1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gconf2                        2.26.2-3   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                         2.9-25     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              0.82-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.26.2-3   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]      7.5.1-1    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                  2.20.5-1   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                   2.16.6-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2.1 0.4.5-1    sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpam0g                      1.0.1-10   Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.24.5-1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.2.2-1  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:
ii  xscreensaver-data            5.05-3+nmu1 data files to be shared among scre

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