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I just booted up and it was like this, everything is zoomed in, but only in Chrome. Even the menu's in chrome are huge. Is this normal? How can I bring this back to normal?
Here is a picture.
TheDudeAbides
Posted 2015-06-10T07:27:37.590
Reputation: 163
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Looks like this chrome bug:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=498426
Apparently, running google-chrome with --force-device-scale-factor may fix it.
pwaller
Posted 2015-06-10T07:27:37.590
Reputation: 201
1It doesn't for me. This seems to be a new bug that does the same as the old thing, but the old fix doesn't work. – Thriveth – 2015-06-11T09:56:25.957
Marking correct because it's a bug that's being fixed as I write this. – TheDudeAbides – 2015-06-11T19:41:40.450
I've had to open my process manager and kill all chrome instances for this to work. – guiomie – 2017-02-05T17:48:36.977
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Unfortunately I don't have 50 rep on superuser so can't comment on the answer that nearly works.
/opt/google/chrome/chrome --force-device-scale-factor=1
did work for me. the answer above didn't have the =1 so it may be the reason it didn't work for you.
JimB
Posted 2015-06-10T07:27:37.590
Reputation: 121
interesting. It worked for me without the =1, as it happens. – pwaller – 2015-06-12T08:06:06.710
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Alternative is to use Chromium.
You can install it using sudo apt-get install chromium-browser.
It features the same sign-in functionality and add-ons like Chrome does.
user813
Posted 2015-06-10T07:27:37.590
Reputation: 109
This does not provide an answer to the question. To critique or request clarification from an author, leave a comment below their post - you can always comment on your own posts, and once you have sufficient reputation you will be able to comment on any post.
– DavidPostill – 2015-06-10T13:27:06.180Sorry @DavidPostill, my intention was to comment because it's not a solution, but I didn't have enough reputation. – user813 – 2015-06-10T23:38:44.260
It's probably caused by your system font/theme – Roemer Bakker – 2015-06-10T07:47:43.223
tried changing that, doesn't do anything. – TheDudeAbides – 2015-06-10T08:00:35.530
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Just adding in a "me too." Ubuntu 14.04, applied updates and restarted this morning. I've been using this install for over a year, but today this happened.
Edit: Found more people who have this problem today, with various work-arounds : AskUbuntu Thread, Reddit thread
A similar question is http://askubuntu.com/questions/634999/ .
– JdeBP – 2015-06-11T19:06:07.150