Google Chrome ignores GNOME Tweaks scaling on Zorin OS 17.3

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Hello, I’ve encountered an issue on Zorin OS 17.3. My display is 4K, so I use GNOME Tweaks to increase the scaling factor (around 1.5x) for comfortable viewing. However, the scaling does not apply in Google Chrome. Interestingly, it works correctly in the Brave browser that comes preinstalled with Zorin OS 17.3, but only Chrome fails to scale properly. Previously, I was using Pop!_OS 22.04, and the scaling worked fine across all browsers, including Chrome.

Also, I noticed that the scaling is applied only right after Chrome is first installed. Once I restart Chrome, the scaling no longer works.

I’m aware of the fractional scaling option, but I prefer not to use it since it makes the screen appear blurry. Has anyone experienced this issue or found a possible solution?

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Is chrome installed as flatpak? If yes, you could try it with the .deb version. To do this first remove the flatpak.

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I installed Chrome using the .deb version.

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Hm, perhaps a chrome bug?

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Are you using Wayland or Xorg? Try to switch to Xorg (cogwheel at login screen).

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It’s solved! Now it works perfectly! Thank you so much!!! Xorg! I didn’t even know this existed, and thanks to you I learned something new.

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With pleasure! I'm glad that it has helped you.

If the scaling get lost after rebooting/restarting chrome you could try to add a chrome flag

'--force-device-scale-factor=1.5'
to ~/.config/chrome-flags.conf.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/1lsqcbq/chrome_ui_scaling_under_wayland_is_broken/

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