The first three bugs I linked to have been open for 5-6 years, so yes I'm saying they're not focusing on these things. It's not solely Ubuntu's fault. A lot of

The first three bugs I linked to have been open for 5-6 years, so yes I'm saying they're not focusing on these things. It's not solely Ubuntu's fault. A lot of the issues are upstream. The screensaver settings bug was closed as WONTFIX in gnome: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316654 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316654 Says the maintainer of gnome-screensaver: I don't have any plans to support this. My view is that any screensaver theme that requires configuration is inherently broken. Yes, because it's not like I'd ever want the pictures screensaver to grab images out of a directory besides ~/Photos/.