Indeed. 
gnome-screensaver-command -d does the trick. You are faster than your own shadow, HC. Because both your emails arrived at the same time to my inbox =P.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:hans@at.or.at">hans@at.or.at</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

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To answer my own question, it seems to be this command:<br>
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gnome-screensaver-command --deactivate<br>
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.hc<div class="im"><br>
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On Jun 24, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:<br>
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Anyone have any tricks for preventing the screensaver from starting on GNOME?  Ideally there would be a simple object :)<br>
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.hc<br>
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