I've been running Xubuntu 64 bit, with Nvidia driver, for about a year or so, and the only thing that has never worked is the screensaver and power management of the monitor. No settings have ever made the PC power the monitor off, and instead of a screensaver I get a black screen with a white vertical bar down the left hand side. This was always the same no matter what screensaver/power settings I had. Everything else worked fine, so I never worried about it.

This weekend, it started working!

I've done two things which might have had a bearing on it:-

1. Installed Openbox and ran a session with that (to check it out with a view to putting it on my EeePC).

2. Played with the Composite Effects for a few minutes and then turned them off again.


Anybody else ever experienced something like this?