Bug#496685: gnome-screensaver: does not honour current X gamma

[Arjan Opmeer]

Package: gnome-screensaver
Version: 2.22.2-1
Severity: minor

Currently gnome-screensavers blank screen theme unfades to the gamma setting
it reads at program startup time (normally the start of your GNOME session).

However if the user in the mean time altered the X gamma with a utility like
xgamma this new setting will not be honoured. Thus causing the X gamma
setting to be reset everytime the screensaver kicks in and subsequently
unfades.

It would be nice if gnome-screensaver could be modified to read the current
X gamma setting just prior to blanking the screen, so it can unfade to the
setting the user is expecting and not some old value.


Arjan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.14 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.2.1-3           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gconf2                 2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  gnome-icon-theme       2.22.0-1          GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.7-13            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.6.4-6           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.1-3           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.76-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-1           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.7-2           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl 7.0.3-5           A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.2-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.5-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-menu2         2.22.2-3          an implementation of the freedeskt
ii  libgnomekbd2           2.22.0-1          GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii  libgnomekbdui2         2.22.0-1          User interface library for libgnom
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.11-3         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1 0.4.4-3           sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpam0g               1.0.1-3           Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.5-1          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.27-1          PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6                 2:1.0.3-2         X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6               2:1.1.4-2         X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1            1:1.1.9-1         X cursor management library
ii  libxext6               2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3             1:4.0.3-2         X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                 2:1.1.3-1         X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1           2:1.0.3-2         X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxklavier12          3.5-1             X Keyboard Extension high-level AP
ii  libxml2                2.6.32.dfsg-2     GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2             2:1.2.3-1         X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.4-2         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxss1                1:1.1.3-1         X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii  libxxf86misc1          1:1.0.1-3         X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extensio
ii  libxxf86vm1            1:1.0.2-1         X11 XFree86 video mode extension l
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnome-screensaver recommends:
ii  gnome-power-manager           2.22.1-2   frontend for gnome-powermanager
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring          2.22.3-1   PAM module to unlock the GNOME key
pn  rss-glx                       <none>     (no description available)

gnome-screensaver suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information