I was able to accomplish the behavior by setting values in gconf-editor as you described above (I'm not sure if it was that exact key or another). This does serve as a useful workaround. However, the title of this bug is "No GUI method to disable screen lock..." so yes the bug is that there is no GUI way to set this.
-- No GUI method to disable screen lock on lid close event https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/10686 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
