13.10 Saucy problems, screensaver, workspace switcher

**coldraven** · October 3rd, 2013

Hi, I just did a clean install of 13.10. Saucy Salamander.
There does not seem to be any way to stop the screensaver blanking the screen after about five minutes. I checked in Appearance and Power settings and it's set to "Never".
Also the workspace switcher will go left/right but not up/down. Using Ctrl+Alt+Arrow keys.
Any tips?

**DuckHook** · October 3rd, 2013

Hi coldraven,

Please do:

Code:

xset -q

Let's see what DPMS is set at.

**coldraven** · October 4th, 2013

Originally Posted by DuckHook

Hi coldraven,

Please do:

Code:

xset -q

Let's see what DPMS is set at.

That gives

Code:

 xset -q
Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
  XKB indicators:
    00: Caps Lock:   off    01: Num Lock:    off    02: Scroll Lock: off
    03: Compose:     off    04: Kana:        off    05: Sleep:       off
    06: Suspend:     off    07: Mute:        off    08: Misc:        off
    09: Mail:        off    10: Charging:    off    11: Shift Lock:  off
    12: Group 2:     off    13: Mouse Keys:  off
  auto repeat delay:  500    repeat rate:  33
  auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
                        fadfffefffedffff
                        9fffffffffffffff
                        fff7ffffffffffff
  bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  2/1    threshold:  4
Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  0    cycle:  0
Colors:
  default colormap:  0x20    BlackPixel:  0x0    WhitePixel:  0xffffff
Font Path:
  /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,built-ins
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 0    Suspend: 0    Off: 0
  DPMS is Enabled
  Monitor is On

**Frogs Hair** · October 4th, 2013

Moved to Ubuntu +1

**DuckHook** · October 4th, 2013

Cause is not DPMS. The problem with Ubuntu is that there are a half-dozen little obscure settings where this sort of behaviour can be hidden. Try this link. Also this one. They all deal with Precise, but probably are still applicable to Saucy. 13.10 may have introduced a few more obscure ways to activate screensaver. If so, can't help you there as I don't have Saucy installed yet.

**mc4man** · October 4th, 2013

The Ws issue is due to be fixed soon, for now open ccsm > wall > bindings > move within wall & set to defaults for move down & move up
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...z/+bug/1201405

For the other thing try setting to anything but 'never', then set back to 'never'

**coldraven** · October 4th, 2013

Thanks for all the replies
I'm a bit busy so I will get back here later.
In the meantime FYI the latest kernel update will not boot (3.11.0-11.17) so I have had to fall back to 3.11.0.11.12. I'm actually not sure which of these is the newest

Error says cpu1 frozen, this is a dual core machine

I just did this and now I'm even more confused

Code:

 uname -r
3.11.0-8-generic

@mc4man For the other thing try setting to anything but 'never', then set back to 'never'

Yes I already tried that, no luck .

**grahammechanical** · October 4th, 2013

These issues have been noticed already. The screen blanking although it is set to Never happens on my updated Saucy, least until today's updates - not tested it yet. The Ctrl+Alt+arrow keys issue has been fixed as of a few days ago. Another way is to use Super+S. Someone said that with that method it is not possible to move an application from one workspace to another but I have not found this to be the case.

I think that there are actual changes to the keyboard shortcut functions. Try Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Left arrow. That is a handy little option provided you have a genetically modified left hand!

Regards.

**Cavsfan** · October 4th, 2013

Is this by any chance with Gnome Flashback or are you on Unity?

**coldraven** · October 5th, 2013

Originally Posted by Cavsfan

Is this by any chance with Gnome Flashback or are you on Unity?

Sorry for the delay in answering, a boozy night at the pub has interupted things.
That was with Unity and it got worse. Firefox started to lose text and the whole system went down.
I can usually create a bootable USB stick really fast but I've had hours of problems and have finally managed to install Ubuntu 12.04. My other netbook with Xubuntu 12.10 started to misbehave and it has been a major hassle.
13.10 has definately been the most buggy release that I've tried. I've been using 12.10 up until now but i realize that I need a stable version to get some work done.