In the spectacle settings one can configure if the screenshot should be copied to the clipboard or saved to a folder, automatically. BUT there is ALSO a button in the "edit rectangle selection" view to copy the screenshot to the clipboard, or save, or save to... This "copy to clipboard" button does not work when saving the screenshot to a location. Using the context menu in the "clipboard taken" notification to "copy" works meanwhile, which is a workaround. The bug is that the button "copy" does not work, when the screenshot is globally configured to be saved to a directory. But it should always follow the buttons pressed in the "edit rectangle selection" view, and only when pressing "Enter" follow the global settings. spectacle-24.05.2-1.fc40.x86_64 Operating System: Fedora Linux 40 KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.4.0 Qt Version: 6.7.2 Kernel Version: 6.9.10-200.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Xe Graphics
no, actually wrong. The global setting is "copy to clipboard" while a custom save location is set. The system does not have "wl-copy" installed because of minimalism reasons... This may be an issue? But shouldnt be. When launching spectacle from terminal this seems to not happen. This may only happen when launching the "edit rectangle selection" view immediately (with a shortcut), as I prefer that instead of using the "main screen" where you can choose the actions.
Can you rephrase in the form of concrete steps to reproduce? The text is rather stream-of-consciousness right now, which makes it hard to figure out how to make the issue happen.
1. In systemsettings, set the keyboard shortcut to "Print" as "take rectangle selection" 2. press print, launches spectacle in that mode 3. Take a screenshot, press the "copy" button in that view It does not copy, while it should do 1. Launch spectacle normally 2. record rectangle screenshot 3. Press "copy" button Weirdly it seems to do copy to clipboard The changes are default here.
In step 3, you're still on the rectangular region overlay view, right? So you're pressing "copy" on the floating toolbar, right?
yes, still the "take rectangle screenshot" view. Pressing the button closes it.
Ok. And can you attach your ~/.config/spectaclerc file so I can see what non-default settings you're using?
Created attachment 172190 [details] spectacle config file
here you go! I didnt find a lot of custom stuff there JPG by default [Annotations] annotationToolType=9 [General] clipboardGroup=PostScreenshotCopyImage launchAction=DoNotTakeScreenshot rememberSelectionRect=Always
Aha, I know what's causing this: the default file format being JPEG. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 485096 ***