When taking a screenshot using Spectacle in a fullscreen Wayland application (e.g. Chrome in F11 mode or a game running via Wine + Wayland), the screenshot is not copied to the clipboard — pasting via Ctrl+V does nothing. However, the image does appear in the clipboard history, but clicking on it still doesn't allow it to be pasted. A workaround is to click on any other item in the clipboard history first, and then click back on the screenshot — after that, Ctrl+V works as expected. I'm not sure whether this is a bug in Spectacle or in the KDE clipboard manager. Expected behavior: The screenshot should be immediately available for pasting via Ctrl+V after being taken, which not works when screenshot is taken from fullscreen wayland app System Information: Operating System: CachyOS Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0 Qt Version: 6.9.1 Kernel Version: 6.15.4-4-cachyos (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 16 × Intel® Core™ i7-10700K CPU @ 3.80GHz Memory: 32 GiB RAM (27.4 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Product Name: Z490 UD
I have the exact same issue. It is inconsistent as well. I feel like if you are fast (like within 1 second) its in the clipboard and you can paste it. Then something clears it out. Same behavior between both flameshot and spectacle. The images show in the clipboard manager and I can toggle between the previous and latest to restore it to the clipboard and then paste it. Operating System: CachyOS Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0 Qt Version: 6.9.1 Kernel Version: 6.15.4-4-cachyos (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core Processor Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (62.4 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Manufacturer: ASRock Product Name: X870E Taichi Lite
I can also confirm that this bug also happens on my machine when playing games - any screenshots (either rectangular snips or full) taken ingame can't be pasted anywhere (about 9 out of 10 times - sometimes it works). To elaborate on the previous comments, I think that it only affects games running in borderless windowed mode (or forced to fullscreen via taskbar menu). Whenever I run a game in "true" fullscreen (or in a window), the screenshots seem to work fine, ie. they can be pasted normally. OS: Manjaro (Wayland) KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.15.0 Qt Version: 6.9.1 Kernel Version: 6.13.12-2 (64-bit)
I have the same issue, when I look in my clipboard contents, it shows up as an empty bar or empty image. I can paste the failed screenshot into obsidian, it recognizes it as an image but shows 'broken image' pictogram. Opening the spectacle application instead of using the screenshot button sometimes works; other times I'd have to click "new image" after opening the program and then it would work.
(In reply to physphase from comment #3) > I have the same issue, when I look in my clipboard contents, it shows up as > an empty bar or empty image. I can paste the failed screenshot into > obsidian, it recognizes it as an image but shows 'broken image' pictogram. > Opening the spectacle application instead of using the screenshot button > sometimes works; other times I'd have to click "new image" after opening the > program and then it would work. Excuse me, new here and forgot to add distro etc. OS: Arch Linux x86_64 Host: 750XFG P07CFL Kernel: 6.12.36-1-lts Resolution: 1920x1080 DE: Plasma 6.4.2 WM: kwin Theme: Breeze-Dark [GTK2], Breeze [GTK3] Icons: breeze-dark [GTK2/3] CPU: 13th Gen Intel i5-1335U (12) @ 4.600GHz GPU: Intel Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics] Memory: 6009MiB / 15671MiB
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kguiaddons/-/merge_requests/182