Bug 512692 - Spectacle --nonotify --background --copy-image (-bnc) combination break copy.
Summary: Spectacle --nonotify --background --copy-image (-bnc) combination break copy.
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: Spectacle
Classification: Applications
Component: General (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: git-master
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Noah Davis
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Reported: 2025-11-27 18:28 UTC by dmatteo002
Modified: 2025-11-27 18:28 UTC (History)
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Description dmatteo002 2025-11-27 18:28:30 UTC 
SUMMARY
Doing spectacle -bnc create a empty entry to the clipboard (instead of copying a fullscreen image), while spectacle -bnrc the clipboard show that an image has been copied but cannot be pasted.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. run command (spectacle -bnc or spectacle -bnrc)
2. only for spectacle -bnrc: select the area
3. open a software that allow image pasting 
4. try to paste

OBSERVED RESULT
Cannot paste (in one case there is empty entry in the clipboard in the other there is the image in the clipboard preview but cannot be pasted).

EXPECTED RESULT
Paste as normal.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE Linux 2025-11-27
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.21.0
Qt Version: 6.10.0
Kernel Version: 6.17.8-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (14.9 GiB usable)

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