FS#45049 - [chromium] Have to force DPI settings

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Francois van der Ven (francoisvdv) - Friday, 22 May 2015, 07:51 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Saturday, 27 June 2015, 20:40 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 4
Private No

Details

Description:
Since chromium 43 the UI is much bigger, probably due to chromium's high DPI improvements.

Additional info:
Chromium 43.0.2357.65

Starting chromium in the following way solves the problem:
chromium --high-dpi-support=1 --force-device-scale-factor=1
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Closed by  Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Saturday, 27 June 2015, 20:40 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  This has been reported and discussed upstream; nothing further to track downstream in Arch.
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Friday, 22 May 2015, 09:50 GMT
Not much we can do other than wait for an upstream fix; it's been reported to the Chromium bug tracker:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=490192
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=490398
Comment by John (graysky) - Sunday, 24 May 2015, 18:49 GMT
I don't think the first flag is needed (--high-dpi-support=1) and as a temporary fix, users can edit the Exec= line of /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop to pass that flag:

Exec=chromium --force-device-scale-factor=1 %U
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Sunday, 24 May 2015, 19:00 GMT
You could also put the flag in ~/.config/chromium-flags.conf:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chromium_tweaks#Making_flags_persistent
Comment by John (graysky) - Sunday, 24 May 2015, 19:03 GMT
That's a better solution, thanks for the tip.

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