Comment 179 for bug 1311316

I was experiencing similar problems to post #32 above using VMware Player 6, latest version.

Dual monitors. I don't recall seeing the problem with only one, i.e. the built-in laptop one.
Problem did not occur every time - only after some varying amount of run time.
AFAIK I don't use ldap, but I will look later.
I will post auth.log later.

~$ dpkg -l unity
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-====================-===============-===============-==============================================
ii unity 7.2.4+14.04.201 amd64 Interface designed for efficiency of space and
~$

My workaround was to send a hangup signal to compiz from VT1. I say was because as of three kernel updates ago, the problem has become worse. Now when the screen timeout occurs when my mouse is on the Win7 VMware VM, when I move the mouse to the host screen (which is the built-in one), the login session crashes and restarts as if I sent ctrl-alt.backspace, thus wiping out all running apps. Needless to say, this is an unworkable situation.

I am happy to provide any helpful information I can to help target this problem. Let me know if my situation belongs in different/another bug report.

FYI, I much prefer the old bug. I might try reverting kernel releases using grub and see if that helps.