SUMMARY Please add option to auto copy screenshot to clipboard SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Ubuntu 19.04.4 KDE Plasma Version: 5.16.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.59.0 Qt Version: 5.12.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Kernel 5.0.0-20-generic 64 bit
You want the screenshot to be saved to a file and also copied to the clipboard? Is it possible that you would be satisfied with only copying to the clipboard instead of saving? Can you explain your use case?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1) > You want the screenshot to be saved to a file and also copied to the > clipboard? Is it possible that you would be satisfied with only copying to > the clipboard instead of saving? Sure! actually only copying to the clipboard would be exactly what I need. > Can you explain your use case? I take lots of screenshots during the day (code, shell output, webpages) and share them via Slack, I'm used from other tools to just press "Print screen", get the selection tool for the capture mode I need, then proceed to Slack / Gimp to paste the image. With Spectacle I've to do extra steps: Spectacle is brought to the foreground, then I click "Copy to Clipboard" button, minimize the Spectacle window and then finally paste it. That won't be annoying if I didn't confuse so often the "Copy to Clipboard" button with the "Take a New Screenshot", ruining a perfect screenshot previously taken. Or worse, forgetting that I have to click that button and pasting/sending an old screenshot out of context or inappropriate. Thank you for your time
This is not what you requested but I have a suggestion how you could improve your workflow: I you take Screenshot via a shortcut when spectacle is not open a notification is displayed. You can then simply drag and drop the picture into the program you want to use to share the image (in your case Slack). Note that the Screenshot will be still saved to your hard drive. Because I don't want to have endless screenshots lying around, I simply set the default save location to /tmp/screenshots/.
I agree that a way to take a screenshot directly to the clipboard without involving files at all would be nice. This is tracked with Bug 375382 (for which there's an old patch that could be dusted off: https://phabricator.kde.org/D9117). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 375382 ***
Created attachment 122001 [details] KSnip I've switch to Ksnip, it already has the feature I need. Thank you for your time!