I have reproduced this bug using Edgy Eft and KDE. I was able to recover from it after about 18 screenshots opened.
** Changed in: meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed ** Changed in: meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- infinite loop with PrintScreen https://launchpad.net/bugs/84278 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs