How can you make the system print dialogue default in chromium?

Solution 1:

If you have problems with chromium's own print dialog (the "print-preview" one)--and I believe the recent snaps with chromium all have problems as described in the question--then you can simply switch to the system print dialog (with a button in the dialog or by invoking it with Ctrl-Shift-P instead of Ctrl-P).

Now we should think how to make this easier for the user of chromium: so that the user won't have to remember these tricks and so that the one won't be faced with the problematic print-preview dialog whenever one wants to print from chromium...

chromium has actually (like chrome) a command-line option that makes it use the system print dialog immediately instead of its own print-preview dialog. You should run it as:

chromium --disable-print-preview

But that's a one-time solution.

Now we should wonder how to conveniently always use this option whenever we start chromium (either from the menu/icon or from shell)... And after a while, I've found the answer:

To get this option always active for chromium installed via snap (for a user, i.e., yourself) you should put it into ~/.chromium-browser.init as described in http://askubuntu.com/a/1215010/19753 :

CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--disable-print-preview"