Troy's method worked for me, so I wrote a small plugin for Rhythmbox which simply changes the values in gconf-editor to "nothing" when Rhythmbox is playing. If you want to use it, just extract the archive to your ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins/ folder and activate the plugin in Rhythmbox.
** Attachment added: "Rhythmbox Laptop Lid plugin" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36235965/rblaptoplid.tar.gz -- [Regression] No "do nothing" for laptop lid closed action https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/416236 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
