I have this same problem. It has happened quite rarely before but nowadays more often and today it has happened twice. It's quite a show stopper when you have to start all the applications three times in a same workday cause there's bunch of them.
With my laptop this won't happen if you just lock it and unlock just after. Today both incidents happened after it was locked more than 30 minutes. My power settings have been set to "Don't suspend" so this shouldn't be a suspending problem. I'm using manually installed Nvidia driver (nvidia-346) and Ubuntu 14.04 with Unity Desktop. All installed graphic drivers: driver : nvidia-346-updates - distro non-free driver : xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - distro free builtin driver : nvidia-340-updates - distro non-free driver : nvidia-346 - distro non-free recommended driver : nvidia-340 - distro non-free -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1458158 Title: Lock Screen Closes Applications To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1458158/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs