Unnecessary vertical scroll bar if host screen height is large enough

[lovetide]

Enhancement bug report

Description

When the width of screen resolution of guest OS is larger than host, but height of screen resolution of guest OS is smaller than host, VMware Player will display horizontal scroll bar (of course), but also display the vertical scroll bar which is unnecessary. See the screenshot below (size=1280x853, GUI client area size=1258x752).

If you can't see the screenshot (well, i can't), browse the following link:

So each time I started VM, I need manually drag the bottom border of VMware Player to let the VM been displayed in full height. It's a little bit annoying.

Environments

Host OS

Fedora 18 x86_64

Guest OS

Fedora 18, Windows XP

Host OS Screen Resolution

1280x1024

Guest OS Screen Resolution

1360x768

[WoodyZ]

有没有截图附

[lovetide]

Screenshot is here 截图在此:

I don't know why it does not displayed, maybe permission problem?

[MarAndreas]

In the screenshot, the top of the horizontal scrollbar is at px 815

The bottom of the VM menu bar is at px 56

Therefore, the screen area available for the VM has a height of 815 - 56 = 759 px

Since 759 < 768, the vertical scrollbar is necessary.

[lovetide]

In this screenshot (size=1280x853, GUI client area size=1258x752), yes, it need a vertical scroll bar. BUT the host OS has a 1024 pixel screen height, it's enough to automatically show full height (768px) of guest OS.

I guess when screen width of guest OS is greater than screen width of host OS, the horizontal scroll bar will shows up, but it occupied the client area of VMware Player GUI, then the height of client area isn't enough to show guest OS, so the vertical scroll bar shows up. This can be improved.

I have another two screenshots:

• Screenshot2: size=1280x868, GUI client area size=1258x767
• Screenshot3: size=1280x869, GUI client area size=1274x768

Screenshot3 vs Screenshot2: Expand only +1px height, vertical bar is gone, and width of GUI client area is increased by +16px.

[lovetide]

I guess when screen width of guest OS is greater than screen width of  host OS, the horizontal scroll bar will shows up, but it occupied the  client area of VMware Player GUI, then the height of client area isn't  enough to show guest OS, so the vertical scroll bar shows up. This can  be improved.

I guest my guess is not wrong, the scroll bar take 16 pixel from GUI client area, see the screenshot below.

That's why height_of_screenshot3 - height_of_screenshot1 = 869 - 853 = 16.

Hope this can be improved, horizontal scroll bar should not occupy GUI client area if screen height is large enough, it will make vertical scroll bar displayed which is not necessary (i mean, we have enough screen height to display full height of guest OS)

[AlencarWell]

Hi, solution this problem? Please !  My OS is Debian 11...