How to fix the scaling of Chromium HiDPI:

Question

Tested: Ubuntu Gnome 16.04 LTS

I'm having trouble getting my HiDPI display, 3200x1800, working correctly with Chromium. By default, Chromium supports high resolution, but does not adapt manually.

So, I found a job to make it work and wanted to share it with everyone else.

Here is what I did:

Originally searched:

$ cd / & && find -iname 'chromium *'

Returned a lot of results ... If your results are somewhere like mine, you will see the file in: / etc / chrome browser / by default

Change this file (all settings):

$ sudo nano / etc / chromium-browser / default

There is a section in which the variable for the arguments is passed to the actual file, which is called in the / bin folder .

Looks like:

CHROMIUM_FLAGS = ""

EDIT it:

CHROMIUM_FLAGS = "- device-power scale factor = 2"

Save the changes and restart Chromium. This should fix Chrome for those who want to use Chromium with a higher resolution.

[ATTENTION] Keep in mind that the scaling factor takes a floating point value, so you can scale it to 1.25 or 2.13 or any other preferred value.

Hope this helps.

• r00thkr