Bug 512692

Summary: Spectacle --nonotify --background --copy-image (-bnc) combination break copy.
Product: [Applications] Spectacle Reporter: dmatteo002
Component: GeneralAssignee: Noah Davis <noahadvs>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: normal CC: dmatteo002, kde
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: git-master   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description dmatteo002 2025-11-27 18:28:30 UTC
SUMMARY
Doing spectacle -bnc create a empty entry to the clipboard (instead of copying a fullscreen image), while spectacle -bnrc the clipboard show that an image has been copied but cannot be pasted.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. run command (spectacle -bnc or spectacle -bnrc)
2. only for spectacle -bnrc: select the area
3. open a software that allow image pasting 
4. try to paste

OBSERVED RESULT
Cannot paste (in one case there is empty entry in the clipboard in the other there is the image in the clipboard preview but cannot be pasted).

EXPECTED RESULT
Paste as normal.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE Linux 2025-11-27
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.21.0
Qt Version: 6.10.0
Kernel Version: 6.17.8-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (14.9 GiB usable)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION