Please describe the problem:
The screensaver comes back from its slumber whenever the notification daemon displays a notification on the desktop (e.g. incoming e-mail, an audio track starting to play, an IM contact becoming on-line, etc.). Whenever this happens the "enter password" dialog pops up.

I think that this might be preventing the screen from entering energy saving mode as long as the events are fired.



Steps to reproduce:
1. Set the screensaver to blank the screen (I haven't tested with a different mode)
2. Run the following from the command-line: gnome-screensaver-command --lock ; sleep 5 ; notify-send hello



Actual results:
The screen is blanked and after five seconds the screensaver's dialog pops up when the notification is sent.

Expected results:
The screen should remain blank.

Does this happen every time?
Yes. All over the night as well :-)

Other information:
I don't know exactly when this started happening, but it used to work fine. I think that when GNOME 2.20.1/2 started entering Debian/unstable.