Oversized Chrome UI on Tumbleweed XFCE 4.20 (Intel GM45 Graphics)

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Hello! I’m facing an issue with Google Chrome UI scaling on openSUSE Tumbleweed with the latest XFCE 4.20. The address bar, tabs, and menus are huge (looks like 2x scaling), although my screen resolution is 1366x768.

My Hardware:

  • Laptop: HP Presario CQ56
  • GPU: Intel Mobile 4 Series (GM45) using i915 driver.
  • RAM: 3GB

What I’ve tried:

  1. Running with --force-device-scale-factor=1 (No effect).
  2. Setting XFCE DPI to 96 manually (
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    No effect).
  3. xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Gdk/WindowScalingFactor returns 1.
  4. xrdb -query returns Authorization required error.
  5. printenv shows no GDK or DPI scale variables.

Interestingly, Chrome says “Version is out of date” even though it’s Tumbleweed. I am running X11.

Any ideas on how to force Chrome to respect the 96 DPI setting or fix this HiDPI ghost scaling? Thanks!