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Autofit guest doesn't work in an Arch Linux VM with GNOME 43 (Wayland).

Open lvets opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

Describe the bug

I cannot seem to get "Autofit guest" working in an Arch Linux VM with GNOME 43 (Wayland).

open-vm-tools version is 12.1.5-1, kernel is 6.1.1.

Afaik, everything is installed & running correctly. I've also tried with the option enable=true under [resolutionKMS] in /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf.

This is with VMware Workstation 17 Pro under Windows 11 as host.

Reproduction steps

  1. Install Arch Linux as guest & open-vm-tools.
  2. ...
  3. Profit.

Expected behavior

Autoresize works in the guest.

Additional context

No response

lvets avatar Jan 02 '23 16:01 lvets

There are known issues with Wayland support. Please try using the "Gnome on Xorg" option. See: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/issues/592

dsouders avatar Jan 02 '23 18:01 dsouders

I am running into the same issue with sway and Wayland on Arch. My current workaround is to exit the sway session. Then change the VMware window to the desired size. Finally, start a new sway session.

It seems VMware applies the current custom window size, but only on the initial start of a sway session. Until now I could not find a way to re-trigger this in a running sway session.

Flnch avatar Oct 20 '23 15:10 Flnch