Comment 10 for bug 779639

Truth be told, I never understood what Shih-Yuan Lee's patch did or how it addressed this bug. My patch is much simpler, but it only addresses a symptom of the bug (the unobscure routine deactivating the screensaver) rather than the underlying bug (why is the obscure/unobscure routine called at every invocation of the screensaver?). Of course, a patch of a particularly annoying symptom is still better than no patch for the underlying cause...

To apply the patch, you must use the Debian package building system to rebuild the gnome-screensaver package. It's very easy to apply if you are familiar with that system, but it's beyond the scope of this bug tracker to provide directions.