Screen saver runaway

[Guest]

I am using Karmic Koala, and I have a really annoying problem with screen saver. Actually, I never use screen savers (just turn off monitor), but I was curious, so I tried this feature in kubuntu 9.10. I did not install any new screen saver, simply clicked almost everything on System Settings → Look and feel → Desktop → Screen Saver (which was not a good idea). Afterwards, I left the panel with Start automatically _unchecked_, but something happened to screen savers. In every minute, Blank screen starts, does not matter what I am doing (just typing or moving the mouse). When I press a key or move the mouse pointer, it asks for password to unlock (of course „Require password to stop” is also unchecked). But if I do nothing, in ten seconds, blank screen disappears, and everything comes back (of course without password). Usually System Settings dialog works fine, but not when setting the time-out („After”), because it ignores my setting, and always defaults to 1 min (kscreensaverrc contains the correct value, and Enabled=false and PlasmaEnabled=false in it).

I also tried: xset s off -dpms, but it has no effect.

And a process started for each blank screen:
ht 2323 1 0 19:28 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 81788958
ht 2326 1 0 19:29 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 81788958
ht 2334 1 0 19:31 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 81788958
ht 2338 1 0 19:32 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 81788958
ht 2342 1 0 19:34 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 81788958
ht 2346 1 0 19:35 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 81788958
ht 2351 1 0 19:37 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 81788958
ht 2359 1 0 19:38 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 56623134
ht 2365 1 0 19:40 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 56623134
ht 2368 1 0 19:41 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 56623134
…

So, my new installation became unusable, can somebody help, how to get rid of this unwanted screen saver?

[Snowhog]

Re: Screen saver runaway

After putting the settings back to their defaults, have you actually restarted to see if a newly restarted session doesn't exhibit this behavior?

[Guest]

Re: Screen saver runaway

Yes, I tried new session, then reboot, but it is always the same.