Bug 511944 - spectacle fails to export directly to imgur from a rectangular selection
Summary: spectacle fails to export directly to imgur from a rectangular selection
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: Spectacle
Classification: Applications
Component: General (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.5.1
Platform: CachyOS Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Noah Davis
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Reported: 2025-11-11 02:47 UTC by fivenineplusr
Modified: 2026-02-02 17:35 UTC (History)
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Description fivenineplusr 2025-11-11 02:47:19 UTC 
(version is actually 6.5.2 instead of 6.5.1 but that's not selectable)
SUMMARY

use spectacle to select a rectangular region and submit it to imgur and it doesn't actually submit it to imgur but saves it to disk. 

bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506067 says that it fixes it but i'm not seeing that being resolved. 

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. activate rectangular spectacle shortcut
2. select a region
3. try to export | share | upload publicly to imgur

OBSERVED RESULT

export does not work, link is not copied to clipboard, upload fails. 

running from the command line:

~ ❯❯❯ spectacle 
qml: /tmp/Spectacle.VvlfZg/Screenshot_20251110_184426.png
error: "/tmp/Spectacle.VvlfZg/Screenshot_20251110_184426.png" "The file or folder /tmp/Spectacle.VvlfZg/Screenshot_20251110_184426.png does not exist."
QObject::disconnect: Unexpected nullptr parameter


EXPECTED RESULT

upload works and link is copied to clipboard. 

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: CachyOS Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
Qt Version: 6.10.0
Kernel Version: 6.17.7-3-cachyos (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (31.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER
Comment 1 fivenineplusr 2026-02-02 17:35:21 UTC 
This bug still exists in spectacle 6.5.5

```
$ spectacle --version
spectacle 6.5.5
$ spectacle                                                                                                                                                      
qml: /tmp/Spectacle.NBansv/Screenshot_20260202_093147.png
error: "/tmp/Spectacle.NBansv/Screenshot_20260202_093147.png" "The file or folder /tmp/Spectacle.NBansv/Screenshot_20260202_093147.png does not exist."
```