The problem may be deeper than gnome-screensaver. I experienced the same
annoying symptom with a fresh install of Debian 7.0.0 on a machine
behind an IOGear 8-port PS2 KVM switch. As reported above, simply
opening System Settings -> Displays caused the resolution to revert to
1600x1200, as did running the xrandr command in a terminal. To determine
if it was gnome-screensaver, I forced it to quit using 'gnome-
screensaver-command --exit' and confirmed that the screensaver process
was no longer running. However, switching to another machine for a few
seconds still resulted in the display changing to 1024x768. Using Gnome
Classic instead of Gnome shell didn't help. I did not remove gnome-
screensaver because it required uninstalling other gnome desktop
components also. My solution was to install the XFCE desktop which
doesn't exhibit the resolution switching behavior -- and is more usable
than Gnome3 in my opinion.

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  Resolution change with KVM switch on Precise

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