I was having the same problem and fixed it by turning on uxa. Details on how to do that are here
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/UxaTesting -- ubuntu crash & restart itself when playing video in totem movie player and at the same time clicking on anything/ anywhere outside of the player https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/407609 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp