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Akshay_2006

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Registered: 2021-08-31

Posts: 1

ArchLinux + KDE resizing not working in Vmware Workstation

I am new to archlinux and i have installed arch linux alsong with KDE. I installed it on virtualbox and it was working fine but due to poor performance issues it switched to Vmware workstation player 16. I installed and did the same i also installed the VM tools by the following commands :

sudo pacman -S open-vm-tools
sudo pacman-S gtkmm3
sudo pacman -S xf86-video-vmware xf86-input-vmmouse
sudo systemctl enable vmtoolsd.service

Then I rebooted but the resisring doesnt seem to work. the copy paste from the host to guest and viceversa semms to work fine.

At the start i thought its vmware issue and then i installed manjaro in the vmware. but it seemed to work fine over there. In manjaro the resiszing was working perfect without even installing something (perhaps it installed the drivers on it own in the first startup )

Then i thought its the KDE issue in the arch linux, so i installled gnome + archlinux and followed the same procedure as the above one but it didnot seem to work in gnome as welll.

I also posted this question in reddit of vmware, here is the link :
https://www.reddit.com/r/vmware/comment … ven_after/

Here are some link to the images of the issue :
https://imgur.com/BwIHHyc
https://imgur.com/OFabGiS

How do i resolve this issue ?
Pls Help

Last edited by Akshay_2006 (2021-09-25 05:32:23)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,300

Re: ArchLinux + KDE resizing not working in Vmware Workstation

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VMware … el_drivers
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VMware … figuration
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VMware … celeration
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VMware … t_problems

Did you read these? If you didn't go read those, and maybe check the entire article for a few other things.

jsoy9pQbYVNu5nfU

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Registered: 2013-04-19

Posts: 108

Re: ArchLinux + KDE resizing not working in Vmware Workstation

I am running the same setup, and it works for me. In addition to v1del's points (read them)

- Post the contents of Xorg.0.log, look for issues with the driver, and pay attention to whether the driver is getting picked.

- Do not use a Wayland plasma session, obviously.