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Master One

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-01-21

Posts: 249

Printing not working in Gnome Epiphany

On a fresh installation with Gnome 3.34.0 I can not make Epiphany to print anything. Printers are setup correctly and work from other applications. I have attached 3 screenshots:

When I press Ctrl-p or select printing from the menu, the Gnome print dialog comes up as expected.

https://i.ibb.co/jy1xh0F/epiphany-print1.png

When I select a printer (in my case "netbrother" or PDF) and click Print, the print dialog disappears and the error message "Printer not found" is shown.

https://i.ibb.co/yP3r4Mn/epiphany-print2.png

When I select "Print to File" and click Print, the print dialog disappears and the error "No such file or directory" is shown.

https://i.ibb.co/q90sfZ0/epiphany-print3.png

Can anyone confirm this issue or has an idea what may be wrong?

I have already created an issue on Gnome's gitlab here.

moderator edit -- replaced oversized images with links.
Pasting pictures and code

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2019-09-29 22:32:34)

hoschi

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From: Ulm (Germany)

Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 458

Re: Printing not working in Gnome Epiphany

This thread is getting old, but there are several issues and hopefully this save other ones a little time during research:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/issues/1023

When Epiphany is using Bubblewrap Sandboxing (since 3.34), printing at all doesn't work and silently fails. Including Print2PDF.

Last edited by hoschi (2019-12-22 12:33:36)

linmjorg

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Registered: 2020-04-09

Posts: 10

Re: Printing not working in Gnome Epiphany

It is likely a webkit bug.
If I start Epiphany like this:

WEBKIT_FORCE_SANDBOX=0 epiphany

printing is working.
Look here for example:
https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/evoluti … il/22982/2

linmjorg

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Registered: 2020-04-09

Posts: 10

Re: Printing not working in Gnome Epiphany

There should come a fix:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202363