This happened to me on a Thinkpad T430 after an upgrade to 14.04. Print screen worked on 13.10 before the upgrade.
I don't know if this is related but I also seem to have lost the functionality of the keyboard volume keys and "Fn" keys, such as for controlling screen brightness. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-screenshot in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1295994 Title: Unable to use Printscreen Button on Ubuntu 14.04 in GNOME Shell Status in “gnome-screenshot” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Hi, I am trying Ubuntu 14.04 and I noticed that Printscreen button doesn't work. I had no problems in 13.10. If I run "gnome-screenshot", or "gnome-screenshot -a" in a Terminal it says "Unable to use GNOME Shell's builtin screenshot interface, resorting to fallback X11. I noticed that the function works if custom shortcuts are set. Can anyone help? Thanks To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screenshot/+bug/1295994/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
