Gnome screensaver settings problem - 12.10

[timbalisto]

I recently did a clean install of Ubuntu 12.10, and I followed a post-installation guide for installing xscreensaver. I purged gnome-screensaver, installed the needed xscreensaver files, and wrote a startup script to auto-start xscreensaver with no splash. Everything worked fine, but I didn't like the look of the lockscreen that xscreensaver used. So I reinstalled gnome-screensaver, did a killall of xscreensaver, and changed the startup script to launch gnome-screensaver instead of xscreensaver.

I'm unable to find the settings for gnome-screensaver. Typing "gnome-screensaver" in the dash yields no results. Typing "screensaver" in the dash only gives me the settings for xscreensaver.

Here is the result of typing "sudo gnome-screensaver" in the terminal

tim@lappy:~$ sudo gnome-screensaver

** (gnome-screensaver:20076): WARNING **: Couldn't get presence status: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files

Here is the original startup script for xscreensaver in /etc/xdg/startup/

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Screensaver
Type=Application
Exec=xscreensaver -nosplash

I would like to know how to get to the gnome-screensaver settings. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

[timbalisto]

Bumpity bump-bump.

Bumpity bump-bump.

Look at that thread go.

[JOHNNYG713]

It cant find it because it isn’t there ! the daemon is, but not the application, That is why you have to use xscreensaver ! there is no gnome screensaver application at this time.