I think this has been made more complicated than necessary. I think the problem is this (at least it was for me when i submitted aduplicate of this bug):
A user closes his laptop and when he opens it again he has to unlock it with his password (regardless of whether suspend was used or not). He thinks "gosh this is obnoxious. How the heck do I stop the screen locking whenever I close the lid?" And then after exploring around a bit, (1) he realizes that disabling screen lock in screensaver preferences doesn't do the trick, and (2) in power management preferences there are options for what to do when the lid closes, but none of them are related to screen locking. It would be nice if somewhere there was an option that says "when i close the lid don't lock the screen." Whether to activate the screensaver or go straight to suspend is not really the issue, because the power management prefs already let you choose from blank screen, suspend, hibernate, or nothing. -- 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
