Bug 405189 - If you take a screenshot, copy it to clipboard and close Spectacle, it's impossible to paste the screenshot into a photo editor
Summary: If you take a screenshot, copy it to clipboard and close Spectacle, it's impo...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 393708
Alias: None
Product: Spectacle
Classification: Applications
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: 18.12.3
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Boudhayan Gupta
URL:
Keywords: investigated, triaged
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2019-03-07 18:16 UTC by Patrick Silva
Modified: 2019-03-26 18:14 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Patrick Silva 2019-03-07 18:16:11 UTC 
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. open spectacle by pressing printscreen key
2. check "Quit after save or copy" option
3. click "Copy to clipboard" button (spectacle closes)
4. try to paste the screenshot into a photo editor (tested pinta, kolourpaint, gimp, photoflare) 

OBSERVED RESULT
you can not paste the screenshot.

EXPECTED RESULT
screenshot is pasted into the photo editor

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.15.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.55.0
Qt Version: 5.12.1


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
"Ignone images" is unchecked in settings of clipboard applet.
Comment 1 Patrick Silva 2019-03-07 18:32:15 UTC 
Same problem occurs when "Quit after save or copy" is unchcked but I close spectacle before try to paste the screenshot.
Comment 2 Andrew Crouthamel 2019-03-12 01:27:44 UTC 
I can confirm this on 18.12.3 on Neon. The clipboard is cleared upon exit of Spectacle.
Comment 3 David Redondo 2019-03-19 09:19:48 UTC 
Related:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=393708
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2019-03-26 18:14:50 UTC 
Same issue as Bug 393708 and will be fixed in the same way.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 393708 ***