Is there any way to disable the animation which occurs when attempting to unlock gnome Screensaver and failing? Currently the password dialog shakes back and forth and for some reason on some laptops, this animation causes the entire system to be unresponsive for about 5 - 7 seconds. Can be very frustrating because it increases the chances of a second, third, etc mistyped passsword.I'm currently on Fedora 11 but this issue also occurs in Ubuntu. The Ubuntu change log calls this feature Shake the dialog when authentication failsgnome-screensaver (0.0.17-0ubuntu1) dapper; urgency=low        * New upstream release:    - 0.0.16:      - Shake the dialog when authentication fails       -- Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach@ubuntu.com>  Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:14:22 +0200
How to disable Shake password dialog when authentication fails of Gnome Screensaver?
gnome;gui;authentication;screensaver
For a moment, I thought that this might be inherited from the GDM configuration (since the GDM login screen does the same thing), but apparently it's not.After checking a few other places without any luck, I decided to find out for myself and took a look at the source code(v2.30).  The code responsible for the shaking only checks to make sure the dialog isn't already being shaken.  It makes no checks against any configuration, so there doesn't appear to be a way to disable it without changing the code itself.You might try switching to xscreensaver and see if that helps.