Or you could change the shortcut
I just re-assigned the "Take screenshot of a window" action to Ctrl+PrtSc in the Keyboard Shortcuts app (in System -> Preferences). This is because if the system gets into a funny state I like to be able to use the magic sysrq keys available to sync and umount the disks before powering off.
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