Printing from Vivaldi browser
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I have recently downloaded Vivaldi (Ubuntu), created an account and used the search facilities. But wherever I am in Vivaldi, and find that Ctrl+P or menu/file/print will bring up a print possibility, I am offered only: 'Save to pdf'. If I click 'More options'
it presents none, and the 'Manage' button (bottom left) does nothing. Even the Help and Settings pages seem unable to find the word 'print'.The only advice I can find refers to the print preview page but it says to use menu options which that page does not actually offer me. Reader View and using system dialogue still offer only 'Print to file'.
I cannot believe that the browser actually cannot connect to a printer - what use would it be? - so how do I do it?
Username: RogerJarvis
Error message: Print to pdf -
@RogerJarvis deb or flatpak or snap package?
Perhaps a GNOME permission issue of your installed package.For me Ubuntu 24 LTS the 7.0.3495.29 (deb package from vivaldi.com) prints.
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Thank you! I'm on Ubuntu 22 LTS but the same 7.0.3495.29, downloaded from Snap Store and installed by Ubuntu Software. The Permissions do say "cups (access to the cups socket for printing)" is not connected.
I haven't come across cups before, and can find no reference to it in Gnome or Vivaldi help pages. Any idea how to connect it?
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Further: discovered how to download cups from Ubuntu, and it seems to have solved the problem!
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@RogerJarvis Snaps and Flatpaks run sandboxed in Linux, they don't see the rest of the installed system.
It is best to download the native (in this case, DEB) package of Vivaldi and install that.
Regarding CUPS, that should be included in the default installation of every Linux distribution.
