Comment 31 for bug 416236

This affects me too and is really annoying. Having to keep my laptop lid open is a serious inconvenience for anyone using an external monitor. I can't understand logically why anyone would want to remove the 'Do Nothing' option, there was a reason for it, and that reason hasn't gone away. The Blank Screen option blanks both screens and sometimes it isn't possible to un-blank them without a restart.

This is starting to annoy me with Ubuntu, it seems that development is so concerned with moving on apace that they are no longer getting the basics right, each new release either breaks things that worked previously, or removes useful functions.