Affects me too, on 13.10 with Intel HD 3000 and NVIDIA GT 540M (bumblebee 3.2.1 and kernel 3.10.0.6)
It reproducable for both gnome-screenshot and ksnapshot from KDE. If I select 'window area' in ksnapshot and than press 'take snapshot', target window becomes black even before taking screenshot. Output of 'lspci | grep VGA': 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108M [GeForce GT 540M] (rev ff) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1184323 Title: Gnome-screenshot captures black picture To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1184323/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs