A workaround seems to be to running the following two commands: gconftool-2 -s -t boolean /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/screensaver/start_screensaver false killall gnome-screensaver
A workaround seems to be to running the following two commands: settings_ daemon/ screensaver/ start_screensav er false
gconftool-2 -s -t boolean /apps/gnome_
killall gnome-screensaver