Issue with Player menu bar in VMware Workstation Player 12.1.1 with host OS Linux Mint 18

[RogerSC]

Using VMware Workstation Player 12.1.1 build-3770994  on Linux Mint 18 to make a Windows 7 VM. The issue is that on the VMware Player menu bar, where you usually see items like "File", "VM", and "Help", only "File" appears. However, once I have the "File" dropdown menu open, I can slide my mouse over to the right and the next (unlabeled) menu opens, and then if I slide my  mouse over a little more, the "Help" menu opens. Or I can click on the unlabeled part of the menu bar where the labels for those menus would be, and the dropdown menus appear.

Not a big thing, pretty much cosmetic since I can get to the unlabeled dropdown menus, but the Player is usually better than this. The menu bar labels and dropdown menus are usually all there, and the problems that I encounter are much more subtle operational problems. I've played around, but I don't see any way to bring the missing menu bar labels back. And I've removed and re-installed this (checked the md5sum after downloading, as well) and have seen the same thing both times.

Any way to get the full menu bar labeling? Am I the only one seeing this?

Thanks!

[schmcole]

I also have this problem, same Linux distro and version.

[Mr_B]

I completely removed Libreoffice and the menu re-appeared.

sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice*
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

[Mr_B]

Then reinstall with the latest version.

[TimMcGinn]

This may be a dead thread, but I have this issue with Player 12.5.7 on Mint 18.1. Player also forgets my VMs and I have to open them again. Following the steps Mr B posted, I got the menus back, but I have not had enough time to see if Player forgets again. Reinstalling libreoffice doesn't affect the menus.

[_EJH]

I had the same issue, with Mint 18 and VMWare Workstation Player 12.5.9 build-7535481  the suggested work around fixed the problem

I uninstalled LibreOffice and finnaly got the full menu back.

I reinstalled LibreOffice after, and the menu is still present

Thanks for the tip