That's strange but I can't find where can I choose a screen saver and configure when will it start. There is no button named anything like "screen saver" in the Settings Manager.
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Those settings are located in the power management settings. You can directly launch that using xfce4-power-manager-settings.
The blank option makes your screen display the black color but does not turn it off! I don't know what is the difference between sleep and switch off because both seem to make my monitor enter standby mode.
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The short blunt answer is sense 14.04 you can not have a screen saver other then the blank black. You will have to install xscreensaver or gnome-screensaver
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I don't believe Xfce comes with a screensaver. I use the "Switch off after" setting in the Xfce Power Manager to switch off my monitor.
The "Blank after" and "Put to sleep after" settings don't give me even a blank black, but do trigger the login window as configured on the Security tab.
This is seriously non-intuitive, as the Security tab implies that Light Locker only activates "when the screensaver is active", and since nothing on the Display tab (or elsewhere) mentions a screensaver, I assumed it wasn't set up. Where's my "screensaver" setting, even if it's only for black?
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