Chromium update wrong window size

anon49550872 · October 19, 2021, 9:11pm

After today’s update, noticed that when I maximize Chromium window, it doesn’t fit the screen anymore…

[2021-10-19T17:29:37-0300] [ALPM] upgraded chromium (94.0.4606.81-1 -> 95.0.4638.54-1)

jonathon · October 19, 2021, 9:40pm

Is that maximised, or is the window just larger than the screen resolution (so just needs to be shrunk)?

(Works OK here under GNOME+Wayland)

anon49550872 · October 19, 2021, 9:44pm

Yes, it’s maximised, when I open for the first time, it fits the screen correctly, the problem happens when I minimize and then maximize the window

closed and just opened again, it’s normal

XFCE here

jonathon · October 19, 2021, 9:48pm

Hmm. As a data point, can’t replicate here, but then I’m not running Xfce.

Does it also happen with a guest window or completely clean instance, e.g. HOME=$(mktemp -d) chromium ?

anon49550872 · October 19, 2021, 9:51pm

Guest window same behavior, it opens correctly, and then problems happens

Regarding the (mktemp -d) chromium, unfortunately didn’t understand how to accomplish that test

anon49550872 · October 19, 2021, 9:52pm

I didn’t reboot after the update, let me test that, having a feeling that will work, one sec
Edit: Rebooted but the problem persists… Really strange…

ricklinux · October 19, 2021, 10:30pm

It works fine on my system. 1680x1050 monitor on KDE.

anon49550872 · October 19, 2021, 10:33pm

Thanks for the input, I guess it is something specific to my system…

GNOME + Wayland OK
KDE 1680x1050 also OK
XFCE 1920x1080 here by the way (non OK for me)

I’m not so worried about it, I’ll change the DE next week, or during the weekend, but thanks everyone

jdullemond · October 20, 2021, 12:26am

Same problem here with Chrome. Not sure what started the problem but exactly the same issue you are having.

anon49550872 · October 20, 2021, 12:27am

oh, thanks for the input, I was thinking that it was something only affecting my system/setup…
So probably will affect more people than just us two…

jdullemond · October 20, 2021, 12:47am

I have the issue on two totally different PC’s here. On first opening Chrome, it fits the monitor perfectly. But if you resize the window, then maximize it, it becomes larger than the available screen size.

ricklinux · October 20, 2021, 1:08am

Okay… i don’t have this problem on mine. Did you check settings, appearance, page zoom?

jonathon · October 20, 2021, 1:59am

If you run:

HOME=$(mktemp -d) chromium

then this sets the $HOME variable to a new temporary directory and then runs Chromium in a completely fresh state, unaffected by any other settings you might have in your normal $HOME.

jdullemond · October 20, 2021, 10:44am

Page zoom is set to 100%

anon49550872 · October 20, 2021, 1:57pm

Same behavior with that command, as soon as I resize the window, then maximize it, it becomes larger than the available screen size.

anon49550872 · October 20, 2021, 2:09pm

Just noticed a new strange behavior…
I always change my taskbar background style from transparent to solid color

When the Chromium resize window bug happens, the taskbar background becomes transparent again.
The settings remains solid color but the taskbar becomes transparent.

before bug:

after resizing chromium window

ricklinux · October 20, 2021, 2:24pm

I don’t understand where these problems come from because i don’t have them. Very strange but maybe is because i don’t have many changes to the standard setup?