Additional Functionality

Buttons
There are some buttons located at the bottom of the Spectacle window. Their functions are described below:
Help 	 Gives you the common menu items described in the Help Menu of the Fundamentals.
Configure... 	 Gives you access to Spectacle's Configure window where you can change the capture settings and default save location and filename.
Tools 	 Opens a drop-down menu which offers various tools:
Open Screenshots Folder will highlight the last saved screenshot in the default file manager
Access to the Print dialog
A range of external programs for Screen Recording
Export 	 Opens a drop-down menu that will allow you to directly open the screenshot with all programs that are associated with the PNG (Portable Network Graphics) type. Depending on what programs are installed, you will be able to open and edit the snapshot in your graphics applications or viewers.
Furthermore, if you have the KIPI Plugins installed, you will be able to email your screenshots and export them directly to some social networks and websites.
Copy To Clipboard 	 Copies the current screenshot to the clipboard. You can also use the C keyboard shortcut for this.
Save As 	 Saves the screenshot as a PNG image in your default Pictures folder and immediately exits the application.

Configure
Use the Configure... button to open the configuration dialog.

General
General
Copy save location to clipboard 	 When a screenshot is saved, copy the location at which the file was saved to the clipboard. You can then paste it anywhere that accepts text input. Note that you must be running a clipboard manager in order to keep the path in the clipboard after Spectacle quits.
Use light background 	 Use a light background color to mask the cropped-out area in the rectangular region selector. This may make dark cursors easier to see.
Remember selected area 	 By default, Spectacle does not show an initial selection when you take a screenshot of a rectangular region. Enable this option to remember the last selected region of the screen, and set it as the initial selection when you use the rectangular region selector the next time.

Save
When you use the Save function, Spectacle saves the image with a default filename, in your Pictures folder (which is inside your home folder). The default filename includes the date and time when the image was taken.
The Save page allows you to set the default save location and filename. Clicking this option brings up a dialog box like the following:
Save
Default Save Location 	 In the Location text box set the folder where you'd like to save your screenshots when you press Save.
Default Save Filename 	 Set a default filename for saved screenshots.
You can use the following placeholders in the filename, which will be replaced with actual text when the file is saved:
%Y: Year (4 digit)
%y: Year (2 digit)
%M: Month
%D: Day
%H: Hour
%m: Minute
%S: Second
%T: Window title
If a file with this name already exists, a serial number will be appended to the filename. For example, if the filename is Screenshot, and Screenshot.png already exists, the image will be saved as Screenshot-1.png.
Typing an extension into the filename will automatically set the image format correctly and remove the extension from the filename field.

Drag and Drop
A captured image can be dragged to another application or document. If the application is able to handle images, a copy of the full image is inserted there.
If you drag a screenshot into a file manager window, a dialog pops up where you can edit the filename and select the image format and the file will be inserted into the actual folder.
If you drag the screenshot to a text box, the path to the temporary saved file is inserted. This is useful for example to upload a screenshot through web forms or to attach screenshots into bug reports on the bugtracker.
This works with all clients that do not pick up the image data, but only look for a in the dragged mimedata.