Bug#996907: xfce4-power-manager: Screen blank is active but not configurable when xfce4-power-manager is NOT installed

[Phil Endecott <spam_from_debian_bugs_2021@chezphil.org>]

Package: xfce4-power-manager
Version: 4.16.0-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I did a miminal install of xfce, i.e. "apt-get install xfce4", which 
did NOT install xfce4-power-manager.

The resulting system had screen blank configured to activate after 
10 minutes, but there was no settings panel to adjust or disable 
this.

After a lot of googling and trial-and-error I discovered that the 
display power management settings are part of this xfce4-power-manager 
package. After installing this, I was able to adjust the timeouts.

It seems to me that (1) maybe screen blank settings should be installed 
as part of a default xfce4 install, and/or (2) if the screen blank 
settings panel is not installed, then screen blank should be disabled 
by default.


Regards, Phil.