The maintainers of compiz and the GNOME screenshot utility both think
that the other one should fix it in their end. Ways of break this
stalemate include:

* Ubuntu could choose to maintain a patch to the GNOME code even though
GNOME refuses to merge it upstream. This sort of makes sense because
Ubuntu has already deliberately chosen not to use the default window
manager (metacity) so Ubuntu is the entity that caused the screenshoting
to break (everything always worked well in the upstream version).

* Writing a decent screenshot plugin for compiz (that looks and feels
like the GNOME one because the GNOME utility is pretty nice I think) and
have Ubuntu switch to that by default (it's indeed reasonable that each
window manager implements code for taking a screenshot, since each
window manager stores the window data / bitmaps differently).

* Maybe it will be possible to stop using compiz in Ubuntu once Mutter
is released (I've no expertise in this area, I'm really just
speculating)?

* Or maybe someone could come up with a good patch that fixes the
screenshot utility but that is still acceptable for upstream GNOME.

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"Include the window border" doesn't work by default (with compiz)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/74008
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