KDE Spectacle copy screenshot to clipboard

KDE Spectacle copy screenshot to clipboard.md

• sudo apt-get install xclip
• Configure spectacle to use Rectangular Selection, default save to /some/path/Screenshot_%Y%M%D_%H%m%S
• Configure PrintScreen for rectangular selection via custom shortcuts
• Try it - once you select the area and hit enter it should show the pop-up notification about saved file.
• On this notification select the settings button
• In the notification settings enable "Run command" and set it as /usr/bin/xclip -selection clipboard -target image/png -i $(ls -1tr /some/path/Screenshot_*.png | tail -n 1)

Hello this solution works great, but kde screenshot notification is showed several times each screenshot is captured, do you know a solution ? tis only occurs when "Run command" option is configured with this script

You should get an eye on this workaround :
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/5i4awm/how_to_make_spectacle_copy_to_clipboard_by_default/
It works pretty fine and if you'd like to prevent the notification to popup, you just need to append a -n option to spectacle command.
Try a spectacle --help for others that might interest you.

Personally I just create a Custom Shortcut on that command and it's suitable !

@rbenal, I do not have a solution to your problem. Since then I use flameshot for my screenshots.

@elchusco, thank you for your information on this option.

@elchusco @Xarkam i just found out that you can just tell spectacle to copy to clipboard using -c option
spectacle -brc

Thanks @igoro00 I test asap this option :)

did it work? maybe they introduced this option recently. It works for sure on manjaro KDE with spectacle 20.04.0

@igoro00 I am running spectacle 17.12.3, I guess that's why the -c option is still missing :

$ spectacle -c 
Unknown option 'c'.

I don't know which package should I upgrade so it upgrade spectacle, I guess plasma or kde itself...

I think I came across this option at the time I posted this workaround, but wasn't able to try it. That's a good new.

@Xarkam thanks for the flameshot alternative which looks super great ! I think I will switch to this solution, although it's not native to KDE, but it seems to offer some interesting features like quick edit etc.

@igoro00 It works!

I consider flameshot to be unmaintained. It has been 10 months since there were any more commits in the code and 51 pull requests are still pending.

Spectacle goes ahead, but it lacks that awesome option of being able to annotate an image before copying or saving it.

If you are using Wayland, you can't use xclip. You can choose to install wl-copy instead and set the command as
/usr/bin/wl-copy < $(ls -1tr /home/rfaccount/Pictures/Screenshot_*.png | tail -n 1)

I don't use wayland.
Flameshot is very active again but in the meantime I have found ksnip which I find very good for the KDE environment.
ksnip supports partially wayland.

If you are using Wayland, you can't use xclip. You can choose to install wl-copy instead and set the command as /usr/bin/wl-copy < $(ls -1tr /home/rfaccount/Pictures/Screenshot_*.png | tail -n 1)

This is super helpful! KDE doesn't seem to have a way to copy to clipboard under wayland that I've found in any screenshot apps. So this is a great workaround in the meantime.