Comment 55 for bug 1017091

Here is something you can try. Change your window manager from gala to compiz or metacity. Suddenly screenshots and other issues (such as broken transparency effects etc) that are being blamed on AMD are working again. If other window managers can do it, then so can Elementary. I used Ubunto Studio for awhile without problems. Now getting the drivers installed was like pulling teeth since I use the latest driver release - the old ones have more problems than the new. Getting them installed takes a few jumps because they aren't on a PPA.

I use the AMD drivers to work around some problems in LyX. I've tried everything else and using the binary drivers is the only thing that works. I won't stop using LyX. That leaves me with the option of dumping Elementary if they decide to not support binary drivers. They work fine in other distros. Changing out gala to compiz shows other bugs though - a bunch of apps (which worked fine in other distros) don't get decorated for some reason. I haven't managed to figure out why. Metacity seems to work OK, but you lose the desktop background (maybe I'm not seeing how to turn it on - compiz has its own and I think normally nautilus does the background which elementary doesn't use).

The screenshots work in gala, they are just an hour or so old. Its getting the wrong bit of screen memory. It has something to do with the way gala is compositing images I think. Other compositing window managers work fine though.