Linux Lite
I've repeated the steps I outlined in the previous post to complete all 8 tab stacks at the top of my Vivaldi window. Taken one small step at a time, this would seem to be a very lengthy process, but in real time it only took me a few minutes to create all 8 of these tab stacks. Creating the tab stack on the top line is a bit of a chore, but then adding all the rest of the tabs from that group to the stack (in the second row) goes very quickly.
By the time that I've created five of these, and have started on the sixth, Vivaldi is starting to act a little sluggish, because by now I have a very large number of sites open. If that happens to you, all you need to do is close Vivaldi and reopen it. That allows those tab processes to be shut down and their resources reclaimed. When you normally start Vivaldi, all the sites in the tab stacks are not opened, just any that you select from this new "web site menu."
So that's what I did -- I closed Vivaldi and reopened it -- and I'm back to creating the rest of my tab stacks at full speed. Here's the final result, and I've warned you that this image is going to be a wide one. It's taken from an HD monitor and posted in a forum message.
The last tab stack I created was the one called "Streaming," and it contains tabs for all the streaming sites that I subscribe to. In Vivaldi on my media computer that drives our television, this is the only tab stack I need. I also put it here on my laptop so that I can watch a race or a soccer match on my laptop, for example, while my wife watches a romance movie on our TV. When I do that, I use Bluetooth earbuds, so neither of us disturbs the other.
Although, as I wrote, this entire process goes quickly, especially after you've done it once. But Vivaldi provides a way for you to save everything in a "Session," so you can easily return to this finished state if you should accidentally damage anything. In Vivaldi's "File" menu, there's an item at the bottom called "Save All Tabs as Session ..."
I'm going to use that feature now to create a session called "Complete," because I've finished this task for now.
In the future, if I should damage these tab stacks by accidentally deleting something I shouldn't have, I can easily restore the whole set of tab stacks on this machine by using the menu item just above the one we used to create the session, called "Open Saved Session ..." Here's what that looks like.
In time, you may have several sessions listed there, as you add new web sites to your existing stacks or create entirely new tab stacks altogether. On my laptop I usually prune this list occasionally, because the only session I normally want to restore is the last, most complete session.
This concludes the subject of creating tab stacks in Vivaldi. I've now recreated Vivaldi on this VM as an exact match to the Vivaldi on my laptop, so I'll be able to put the VM into full-screen mode and use it for a daily-driver experiment, where I pretend the VM is an actual computer instead. This allows me to work with the distro I'm exploring as if it were installed on hardware, and I can judge for myself how satisfying it would be as a true daily-driver installation on a laptop or desktop.
One thing that I didn't document in these last two messages is using the email feature in Vivaldi, which I use in VMs in order to save using a separate email client that I then need to configure. Vivaldi Mail is simply configured on the Vivaldi Settings page, along with the rest of Vivaldi's browser settings.
The email feature is trivial to set up, so I'll leave those details up to those who might want to use it instead of a separate email client. When I adjusted Vivaldi's settings a while ago, I also added two of my email accounts to Vivaldi Mail (Jerry and WetGeek), so I can access those accounts as I use the VM to simulate working on my laptop, (where I prefer to use Thunderbird for email instead). Doing email this way in VMs also gave me an opportunity to learn more about Vivaldi Mail, by using it for a day or two at a time. I'm getting pretty darned used to it by now.
These last two posts about Vivaldi have documented a very large part of getting a VM ready for its daily-driver experiment. Next, I'll need to finish the rest of the configuration details, such as mounting my NAS shares in the file manager, and everything else I need to do in order to make this VM look and work like the laptop host where it's running. Only then can I start using it instead of the host machine for a day or two, to find out how well it's suited to my needs.
If I run into problems doing that, I'll write about them here, but based on what I've seen of Linux Lite so far, I expect that experiment to be quite a success.