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Reduce font size in window, title bar of Google Chrome - Ubuntu


Problem: The fonts on the Chrome (Version 90) title window as well Chrome UI looks big compared to Mozilla Firefox on the same machine. Or even other window titles and UI on the same machine.

There are no direct settings to manage this in Chrome and we changing the settings in Ubuntu will mess up other windows on the system too, making the fonts look smaller.

So what we will do is set a property for scaling the UX font while launching the google chrome executable.

My system details are as follows,

Chrome Version 90.0.4430.212 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Os Version Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS

Do the following,

sudo vim /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop

You can even replace vim with any editor of your choice like,

sudo kate /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop

OR

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop


Now search for the word 'Exec'


This is what it looks like,

Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable

Change this to

Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --force-device-scale-factor=1.15 %U


Now, 1.15 is a number I came up with after trying few other numbers and felt this worked best for me.


Change the value, save the file and re-launch chrome.














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