Bug 439809

Summary:	Add a way to save to clipboard and save to disk at the same time without losing save options
Product:	[Applications] Spectacle	Reporter:	irchaika
Component:	General	Assignee:	Boudhayan Gupta <me>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	antonio.prcela, jonzn4suse, justin.zobel, kde, noahadvs, serg
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	21.04.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description irchaika 2021-07-13 18:19:28 UTC

SUMMARY
when using the -c flag to save to clipboard it's seemingly impossible to also save to disk unless we use the -o flag, but doing that we can't use our settings for saving (location, format, naming...).

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Running spectacle with -c

OBSERVED RESULT
File is saved only to clipboard, not to disk

EXPECTED RESULT
To have some way to do both at once without having to specify the filepath.

Comment 1 Antonio Prcela 2021-11-01 17:23:22 UTC

For example:
"spectacle -a -b -c"
Saves active window to clipboard and to the default location with extension and naming set in options. No need for -o.
From "man spectacle""
"-c, --clipboard
  In background mode, copy screenshot to clipboard."

-c works only in background mode.

Comment 2 Justin Zobel 2022-11-11 06:58:18 UTC

Moving to wishlist instead of bug.

Comment 3 jonzn4SUSE 2023-06-05 08:29:12 UTC

How does one add to the wishlist?
I  wish that Spectacle didn't close when I hit the ESC key.

Comment 4 Justin Zobel 2023-06-05 23:49:26 UTC

Wishlist items are still bug reports but they have the Severity set to Wishlist.

Comment 5 Noah Davis 2024-01-05 23:34:43 UTC

This appears to be fixed, although I'm not certain the behavior is what users would expect in all situations.

If you do `spectacle -c -o ~/test.webp`, Spectacle will open in GUI mode and the image will be copied to the clipboard in the WebP format, but it will not be saved until you click Save or Save As. If you click Save, the image will be saved to `~/test.webp`.

If you do `spectacle -b -c -o ~/test.webp`, Spectacle will open in background mode, the image will be copied to the clipboard in the WebP format and the image will be saved to `~/test.webp` automatically.