Currently, vmware does not have multi-monitor support in i3 window manager due to the lack of implementation of _NET_WM_FULLSCREEN_MONITORS atom. However, modifying i3 to fakely claim that it supports this atom is enough for VMware to work: _NET_WM_FULLSCREEN_MONITORS not handled properly. · Issue #2116 · i3/i3 · GitHub Unfortunately, i3 developer is not willing to include this workaround due to the breaking of spec. Is it possible to make this work out of the box?
Let's start off by giving the basic info - what version of Workstation? What host OS? What guest OS's are you attempting to run?
Host: Arch Linux (but this problem should be reprocucible on all linux distribution)
Guest: Windows.
VMWare: VMware Workstation 15.1.0 build-13591040