snap chromium does not respect the dpi setting of xfce

Bug #1868162 reported by Darko Veberic
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Bug Description

on a 4k monitor the default 96dpi setting is typically too small to work with. setting it to eg 120dpi the guis become more readable. unfortunately, chromium browser from the snap package on ubuntu 19.04 does still comes with ultra tiny font for the url text window.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: chromium-browser 79.0.3945.79-0ubuntu0.19.10.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-42.34-generic 5.3.18
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-42-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
DRM.card0-DP-1:
 enabled: enabled
 dpms: On
 status: connected
 edid-base64: AP///////wAebQd3LF0AAAwdAQS1PCJ4nj4xrlBHrCcMUFQhCABxQIGAgcCpwNHAgQABAQEBTdAAoPBwPoAwIGUMWFQhAAAaKGgAoPBwPoAIkGUMWFQhAAAaAAAA/QA4PR6HOAAKICAgICAgAAAA/ABMRyBIRFIgNEsKICAgAdoCAxlxRJAEAwEjCQcHgwEAAOMFwADjBgUBAjqAGHE4LUBYLEUAWFQhAAAeVl4AoKCgKVAwIDUAWFQhAAAaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKQ==
 modes: 3840x2160 3840x2160 2560x1440 1920x1080 1920x1080 1920x1080 1600x900 1280x1024 1280x800 1152x864 1280x720 1280x720 1280x720 1024x768 800x600 720x480 720x480 640x480 640x480 640x480
DRM.card0-HDMI-A-1:
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: Off
 status: disconnected
 edid-base64:
 modes:
DRM.card0-HDMI-A-2:
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: Off
 status: disconnected
 edid-base64:
 modes:
Date: Thu Mar 19 20:06:13 2020
DiskUsage:
 Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
 /dev/sda2 ext4 149G 18G 123G 13% /
 tmpfs tmpfs 3.9G 157M 3.7G 4% /dev/shm
 /dev/sda2 ext4 149G 18G 123G 13% /
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-03-18 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
MachineType: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. CML-U PRO Cubi 5 (MS-B183)
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.3.0-42-generic root=UUID=55264ebb-0214-408c-9b11-5009818e9ad4 ro pti=off spectre_v2=off l1tf=off nospec_store_bypass_disable no_stf_barrier quiet
Snap.Changes:
 ID Status Spawn Ready Summary
 3 Done 2020-03-18T21:46:44+01:00 2020-03-18T21:47:20+01:00 Install "chromium" snap
Snap.ChromeDriverVersion: ChromeDriver 80.0.3987.132 (fcea73228632975e052eb90fcf6cd1752d3b42b4-refs/branch-heads/3987@{#974})
Snap.ChromiumVersion:
 /bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8)
 Chromium 80.0.3987.132 snap
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 11/13/2019
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 8.20
dmi.board.asset.tag: Default string
dmi.board.name: MS-B1831
dmi.board.vendor: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Default string
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr8.20:bd11/13/2019:svnMicro-StarInternationalCo.,Ltd.:pnCML-UPROCubi5(MS-B183):pvr1.0:rvnMicro-StarInternationalCo.,Ltd.:rnMS-B1831:rvr1.0:cvnMicro-StarInternationalCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.family: Desktop
dmi.product.name: CML-U PRO Cubi 5 (MS-B183)
dmi.product.sku: B183.8
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.

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Darko Veberic (darko-veberic-kit) wrote :
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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

Thanks for the report. Would you mind attaching a screenshot that demonstrates the problem? I don't have a 4K monitor handy to try and reproduce the problem, unfortunately.

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Isn't this bug 1538256?

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Darko Veberic (darko-veberic-kit) wrote :

yes, indeed.

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