SUMMARY Occasionally when taking a screenshot in Spectacle will fail to copy the image to the clipboard. I see it appear in clipboard history but I'm unable to paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V. Other programs that read from the clipboard (GiMP) also cannot see the image data, and any attempt to re-copy it by clicking the entry in the clipboard history fails. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Launch spectacle and take a screenshot of any region of your screen 2. Attempt to paste into a Dolphin window (Crl+V), or in GiMP press Ctrl+Shift+V 3. Repeat until the error occurs OBSERVED RESULT Both Dolphin and GiMP report that the clipboard is empty. EXPECTED RESULT Dolphin should display a prompt to name the file and GiMP should load and display the image. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: (available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window) Linux/KDE Plasma: KDE Plasma Version: KDE Frameworks Version: Qt Version: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Since the attachment file size limit is only 4MB, here is a video of the bug uploaded to youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bXx0_t1K-c
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kguiaddons/-/merge_requests/182
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/spectacle/-/merge_requests/481
I also have this issue, and it is so frequent that I have been able to paste a screenshot only a handful of times total over the past 2-3 days (mainly in the form of trying to post screenshots to Discord). The 3rd-party Flameshot software does not have the issue, but I prefer Spectacle's UX when the bug is not occurring. Software Versions: Fedora 42 KDE Edition Plasma 6.5.1 Spectacle 6.5.1 Frameworks 6.19.0 Qt 6.9.3
*** Bug 511736 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm not completely certain, but this might be a duplicate of an earlier closed bug, which has now been re-opened: 507792
*** Bug 512029 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I have seen this in the recent past: When I have Spectacle set up automatically copy to the clipboard, the screenshot would fail to paste into any app. When I manually clicked "Copy to clipboard" then the thing that's added to the clipboard will paste into apps. However I can't reproduce the issue on current git master of Spectacle and KWin right now.
I can't reproduce the issue depicted in the video with today's git master, but it looks like Spectacle's settings (and also system notifications?) have been customized. Sollace, can you describe the specific settings you're using?
Is this a dupe of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480448
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kguiaddons/-/merge_requests/191