Solution

It appears that the screen recording option only shows when you take a screenshot from within the full spectacle program:

If you don’t take a screenshot from within the program, then you don’t get that option, as seen here:

I had spectacle set to not take a screenshot automatically on startup, so I never saw this option:

Original Post

I read here, here, and here that Spectacle v23.04 has apparently gained a screen recording funcionality. I have v23.04.3 of spectacle, and It appears to not have such a functionality. Is there some special way to enable it?

  • OS: Arch Linux (kernel v6.4.1-arch2-1)
  • DE: KDE Plasma v5.27.6, Wayland