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flutterborn

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Registered: 2018-08-02

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VMware: All features of open-vm-tools work except autoscaling

Tried all four of the potential solutions in the Arch wiki's section on troubleshooting window resolution autofit problems (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VM … leshooting) and no luck so far.  Also tried various iterations of the vmware tools software itself - installing from source, installing from the prompt within VMware, the rasa patches (https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches) and so on.  Followed this post as well, but no luck - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=189460

Current workaround is running xrandr at login to hard-set resolution to 1920x1080, but it's far from ideal - my workflow has me jump between windowed/fullscreen, multiple monitors, and more such that the autoscaling would be awesome to have.  Updated everything as of this morning, and I'm using KDE as my desktop environment.

Last edited by flutterborn (2018-08-02 17:00:05)

TheSaint

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Registered: 2007-08-19

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Re: VMware: All features of open-vm-tools work except autoscaling

I've KDE and VMware, but I don't face such problem, Resizing the host window will resize its content. What is your guest OS, Archlinux ?
I used to set up the VMware tool within the guest OS.

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do it good first, it will be faster than do it twice the saint

flutterborn

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Re: VMware: All features of open-vm-tools work except autoscaling

Yes, Arch is my guest OS.  KDE and such work fine within Arch and I've got open-vm-tools installed within it.  When I go fullscreen with VMware Workstation the screen resolution does not change - furthermore, the list of possible resolutions in KDE itself does not show 1920x1080, hence needing to force the matter via xrandr.

TheSaint

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Re: VMware: All features of open-vm-tools work except autoscaling

So I suspect that KDE fails to adjust the resolution. I think it might take a bit of programming and the script will be working in background to detect the window size then call xrandr to force the new resolution. A workaround, I mean.

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flutterborn

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Re: VMware: All features of open-vm-tools work except autoscaling

Unfortunately it's not just KDE - I've tried MATE and GNOME on both X and Wayland as well, same issue.