Fix when you can’t switch to full Screen in Manjaro or any arch-distro(Vmware guest) even when open-vm-tools is installed.

First Off: Don’t try to reinstall vmware tools again as it won’t work cause the script has an issue with the init.d directory

FIRST OF INSTALL  open-vm-tools  if not installed

type in-

sudo pacman -S open-vm-tools

Now we’re to install some non-free display drivers and graphic libraries

type in-

sudo pacman -Su xf86-input-vmmouse xf86-video-vmware mesa gtk2 gtkmm

Now all we gotta do is to edit or create the Xorg’s wrapper config

echo needs_root_rights=yes | sudo tee -a /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config

Finally enable and start the  vmtoolsd.service

sudo systemctl enable vmtoolsd
sudo systemctl start vmtoolsd

Now, for instance if you’ve rebooted from the login screen and the resolution is not adapting (Or even after starting the vmtoolsd service nothing happens only then)type in

sudo systemctl restart vmtoolsd

And done, You’re in full resolution –Congratulations.

Fix when you can’t switch to full Screen in Manjaro or any arch-distro(Vmware guest) even when open-vm-tools is installed.
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Ajay
Ajay
2 years ago

I installed Manjaro for the first time. BTW I am an amateur when it comes to Linux based systems.

  1. I followed instructions provided at https://aps09.medium.com/fixing-full-screen-issue-on-manjaro-kde-cc2222fdc171 for KDE. It did not work.
  2. I then came across this article and I got an error running “Xorg’s wrapper config“, stating it could not be found.
  3. I did enable and start the vmtoolsd and yet it would not work.
  4. The last option was to restart vmtoolsd and that did the trick.

Thank you very much for the help, especially for folks like me.

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