I have the exact same problem on my Dell Studio 1558 after upgrading to Xubuntu 11.10. If I open 'power manager' in the XFCE Settings Manager i get a blank window. If I try to open it from the commandline I get the mentioned error. I also have a Dell Latitude e6510, which was also upgraded to Xubuntu 11.10, but on this laptop i can successfully run the powermanager. One difference on this laptop is that it was originally on Ubuntu on which i installed xubuntu-desktop, then I upgraded to Xubuntu 11.10, so the laptop also contains most/all the gnome packages.
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