I'm using VMWare workstation on a laptop. The host is Windows 7 x64, the guest is Ubuntu 10.10.
The laptop, when I'm at work, is hooked into a 1200x1600 portrait display as second screen, and 1280x800 built-in display as primary screen. Generally, I'll put the Ubuntu instance on the second screen and hit the fullscreen button on the toolbar.
When I sleep the laptop and disconnect the screen, and then later wake up the laptop, the guest comes back with a large black border around it. This means that the display it is using is largely out of bounds of the desktop -- but a fair chunk of the top-left of the display is still visible.
I believe that, if I could exit the guest from full-screen (say, go back to windowed mode), and then re-enter full-screen, it would actually take over the main screen, and resize itself to 1280x800. However, I can't figure out how to actually make the VMWare instance exit believing it's in fullscreen mode. Normally, I will get a pop-down menu to control this (minimize and un-fullscreen window control widgets) when I move the cursor to the top of the screen, but that menu does not appear either at top of the display as shown within the guest (which then has a large black border), nor at top of the physical display.
Is there a Linux command-line tool, or some secret key combination or something to use on the host, that can exit the VMWare instance from what it believes is fullscreen mode? Some WM_WHATEVER message I can send to it? Any other option?
Thank you both.