Bug 745275 is a dup of this one (ok, it came first, but this one is more nicely written up).
This is one of the problems described in "Day 7: Lessons from the Unity Trenches (30 Days With Ubuntu)", http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/229734 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/736606 Title: "Do Nothing" option not available by default in the power management preferences dialog -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs