This has been scratching my head for the last few months.
I think this has to do with Dolphin. When I have Dolphin running, (file manager) the screen never goes into power save mode. But If I close it and wait ~15 minutes, the screen will go to sleep fine.
I asked this on EndeavourOS forums, and they didn’t know anything about this behavior.
if you configure your system tray to always show the power management icon, then you have a quick way to check on what is keeping your system from going to sleep.
that information may help find a solution, so next time it happens post a screen shot like @johnandmegh did.
All I see coming up there is Steam. And I always have that running. That is not the issue.
I tried a new file manager, PCManFM, just to test this, and AGAIN, it doesn’t shut the monitors down after 15 minutes. When I have ANY file manager not running, it goes as normal.
to be clear, you have steam running which shows in the power management icon from the system tray that steam is keeping the screen from locking, but still want the monitors to shut off even tho the screen is unlocked.
if you type “power” onto the desktop and open the settings page, under display and brightness where it controls the screen turning off, there is an option for doing that when the screen is both locked AND unlocked.
so if you set that it should shut off the monitor even if the system is not locked or going to sleep.