Created attachment 125563 [details] Video of the issue. I have spectacle configured in keyboard shortcuts so "Shift+PrtSc" captures a rectangular region. (This runs spectacle -br, as far as I can tell.) This works, however, I cannot copy the resulting image directly to my clipboard. Instead, it is immediately saved (because of the "background" option) and the copy action in the window in the lower-right hand corner of the screen merely copies its file *path* instead of the actual image data This makes pasting images very tedious. Spectacle run with full GUI happily copies images to my clipboard, and spectacle run with `spectacle -r` also allows me to copy to clipboard. Attached is a video that should make this much clearer. Suggested behavior: spectacle -b (background screenshot)'s notification's copy menu should copy the image data, rather than the URI, to be consistent with the rest of the application. I'm currently just setting a custom bind of spectable -r for the meantime.
When I click copy in the notification I can copy the image for example to kolourpaint but in firefox only the url is pasted. Klipper also shows the image. Anyways the notification menu comes not from spectacle which only set's the image and the text of the notification so moving this to notification widget. As I don't know if copy copies indeed the image data or only the url and kolourpaint and klipper are smart enough to recognize that it represents an image.
If you directly want to copy the image with a shortcut, you can create a custom shortcut which calls "spectacle -b -c"
That preview feature is not specific to Spectacle, it shows the preview of a file and behaves as such. The "Copy" in there as the same as if you click "Copy" in the file manager. In fact, I can paste it into Kolourpaint or Libre Office just fine.