Bug 503905

Summary:	spectacle not saving screenshots to clipboard on ctrl+c
Product:	[Applications] Spectacle	Reporter:	joran.dox
Component:	General	Assignee:	Noah Davis <noahadvs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	kde, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	24.05.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description joran.dox 2025-05-08 06:56:15 UTC

SUMMARY
Regression? spectacle used to save screenshots to my clipboard when pressing ctrl+c, and after upgrading from Kubuntu 24.04 to 24.10, this stopped working.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. open spectacle
2. ctrl+c to copy screenshot to clipboard

OBSERVED RESULT
nothing happens

EXPECTED RESULT
screenshot is copied to clipboard, as it did in kubuntu 24.04 LTS

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Kubuntu 24.10
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.6.0
Qt Version: 6.6.2
Kernel Version: 6.11.0-25-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 15.0 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Realised that kubuntu was set to LTS only, so I only just upgraded to 24.10. Noticed that spectacle stopped responding to ctrl+c as it always had.
Things I tried:
- Reinstalled spectacle (`sudo apt reinstall kde-spectacle`), but didn't seem to work (though I haven't rebooted since the reinstall yet).
- Checked system setting shortcuts (but that seems to only be system-wide shortcuts to launch spectacle in various modes, I bound printscreen to "launch spectacle" here by the way, and am using this in my repro).
- Checked spectacle configuration (open spectacle -> "configure spectacle" button) but saw nothing that seemed like the right answer (as a side note, the actual effects of each setting here is kind of unclear, it's possible that I'm just misunderstanding things...)
- Workaround is clicking the "copy" button but I'd like to have this be a keyboard shortcut (again?).

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-05-08 15:17:07 UTC

Thankfully this was fixed a while ago. I'd recommend upgrading to Kubuntu 25.04: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PluckyUpgrades/Kubuntu

Comment 2 joran.dox 2025-05-09 12:10:41 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> Thankfully this was fixed a while ago. I'd recommend upgrading to Kubuntu
> 25.04: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PluckyUpgrades/Kubuntu

Ah good to know, thanks!

I'd love to upgrade, but sadly it's being held back for now: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/status-of-oracular-to-plucky-upgrades/59652

Glad to know that it's already fixed then, could I just install a newer version without breaking things or should I just wait a week or two until the upgrade is ironed out?