I thought I'd try XFCE having used fluxbox for a while now, always keen to try something different.
I've installed everything XFCE related from the package manager and it is mostly working well. The problem that I am having though is that I cannot see the display settings. When I try to access them through the menus I am presented with the following: Unable to start the XFCE display settings - The video driver does not support video outputs.
My graphics card is GEForce 7050/nForce 610i. nVidia drivers are all up to date. So far I've been unable to find an answer on XFCE forums. Any ideas would be most welcome.

When you Googled the error, did you come across this --> http://old.nabble.com/Display-Settin...30699271.html? Also, if you're using nVidia drivers, there should be NVIDIA X Server Settings under the Setting menu in XFCE. This would be the better way to adjust the display settings.

Thanks for the link, although there's stuff in there that is way over my head. I can make adjustments in the nVidia Xserver settings as you say. The truth is I thought that there might have been an option to turn off the screensaver (which had been an annoyance) in the display settings. I have since discovered the task manager as I searched /usr/bin, and there is the option to turn it off.

The other option would be to uninstall the screensaver application. The screensaver isn't part of XFCE. If your ditro pulls it as a dependency of XFCE, get a new distro.

Further investigation has shown me that xscreensaver has been present since before I installed XFCE, it just seems that it is on by default when I log in to an XFCE session. I have however discovered the xscreensaver-demo control panel in my distro's repos, and installed that. This gives me the option to switch to a blank screen after an idle period which is much more preferable to me.