I want to fully test/exercise Manjaro KDE 64bit in a VMWare guest on a Windows 10 host. 

I installed KDE Plasma 18.1.4 (verified GPG signature). All went well. After the install I verified that open-vm-tools is present and running.

Unlike all the other distros I have tried I cannot resize the VM window to increase the resolution. Nothing happens. Entering fullscreen simply displays 800x600 centered. If I try to change KDE display settings the resolution will change to what I set momentarily and then snap back to 800x600.

After hours of trying I decided to try Manjaro Gnome 18.1.4. Identical VM settings. It works exactly as it should immediately after an install. I don't have to do anything.

To try to isolate if it was a Manjaro issue, I downloaded the Kubuntu image and it behaves exactly like Manjaro KDE 18.1.14. It doesn't work.  

I tried Manjaro Gnome 18.1.14 and it works immediately out-of-the-box without changing anything.

Keep in mind this is with fully updated software, immediately after install (both before and after the first Manjaro/Kubuntu system update). It happens before I do/change anything. You don't have to do anything to reproduce this but install on a VMWare guest using the latest VMWare workstation player using all defaults.


I've searched and generally "googled". There are issues and workarounds that sound similar, but no suggestions have worked.  Tried starting and stopping the services:

    systemctl stop vmtoolsd.service
    systemctl start vmtoolsd.service

Doing so does allow me to manually resize the window. Trying to change the KDE display settings does nothing. On a system restart the window is back to 800x600.

I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling open-vm-tools, using arandr, starting a brand new virtual machine and reinstalling, increasing the virtual display RAM.


So it looks like a KDE issue and not specific to Manjaro or Kubuntu. 

Using Windows 10 Pro (build 18363 - fully updated as of today), VMWare Workstation Player 15.5.1 build 15018445 (latest as of today). Nvidia drivers 441.66. I have 32gb of physical ram, over 600gb free diskspace. I've allocated 5gb to the VM, 1 or 2gb to the video display. Other than that it is exactly the default image settings from VMWare that work with Ubuntu and Mint...

Thanks

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