>I'm not sure why GNOME screensaver cannot do something like this. This actually is fixed in upstream GNOME because the screensaver is now built into the shell

>I'm not sure why GNOME screensaver cannot do something like this. This actually is fixed in upstream GNOME because the screensaver is now built into the shell. The problem here is exclusively with cinnamon-screensaver and other components derived from gnome-screensaver, which is unmaintained and upstream GNOME considers it obsolete.