gnome-screensaver causes hard lockup when selecting "random"

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 17:22 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 08:29:16PM +0200, Gryphon wrote:
> > 
> > Of course I can't get in to turn off the screensaver, because
> > going into the preferences causes a lockup!!  :)
> 
> $ gconftool-2 -g /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/screensaver/start_screensaver
> true
> 
> Use gconftool-2 to change that to 'false' and that should do it.
> Or you have 'gconf-editor', most likely already on your menus, to do
> the same by mousing around.

In rawhide, gnome-screensaver is just a regular autostarted app, see
/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-screensaver.desktop.