Obviously I wasn't going to put up with this problem for 5 months. I now run metacity.
Because it's 5 months ago, I can't actually remember, but I expect it did: $ ps aux | grep unity And got no results. Then I did $ DISPLAY=:0 unity Don't remember about compiz. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1342024 Title: Unity exits while screen locked To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1342024/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs