VMWare Fusion 13 - Ubuntu still doesn't have auto resolution scaling

[mxadwe]

Every time I fire up Ubuntu 20.04 VM, I have to go into display settings and manually set the scaling to 200%, otherwise everything is super tiny on my 5K display. This needs to be done every time the VM window is resized.

To add to that, the Ubuntu VM ALWAYS boots in a tiny window, regardless of the window size I set on the previous launch.

I was hoping these issues would get fixed in the new 13.0, but here we are

[mxadwe]

I can't be the only one annoyed with this issue...

[za4]

hi!

yes... I don't see bugfixes either...

multi display doesn't work, and the mouse position doesn't update when coming back into the VM (mouse goes back to where it was when I escaped the VM window)

[Mikero]

IT's there if you are using Wayland and have open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop installed.

You can see me demoing it in my livestream from Friday

[mxadwe]

Hi Mike. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

I'm using Wayland and have both open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop installed/updated. I've tested this on both Ubuntu 20.04 and 20.10.

The machine is an Intel 5k iMac running Monterey 12.5.1.

The VM still starts in a tiny window, irrespective of the last launch position or window size. And I have to set the Ubuntu desktop to 200% every time because it always starts at 1x resolution. Further, resizing the window always breaks the 2x resolution and I have to go into display settings again to set it at 200%.

I could share a video, but I don't see an option to add one here directly.

[dankhan_]

Rn this command in the ubuntu terminal:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor 2

This will do the magic! 

[mxadwe]

This fixed the scaling issue. Thanks!

However, the VM still boots in a tiny window regardless of its size on the last run. Do you have any fix for that?

[ColoradoMarmot]

Something's wrong - I'm able to drag the window and it rescales.  Are you sure you have the open-vm-tools installed right?

[dankhan_]

It does boot in a tiny window but after boot it expands as the resolution set for the windowed mode: settings->Display->Resolution. There is no fix for that rn.

[dankhan_]

You need to install open-vm-tools-desktop along with open-vm-tools: sudo apt install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop