VMware Fusion 13.6.2 Screen Auto-resize issues on Kali 6.11.2

[Hanna456]

Hi,

I'm having an issue with my Kali VM not resizing the screen when I change the window shape, I'm just getting black bars around the screen instead.

I've tried reinstalling VMware and creating a new Kali VM, as well as updating and reinstalling open-vm-tools(-desktop). I think its an issue on my Kali VM as I created a debian VM and the auto-resizing worked without issue.

I'm struggling to figure out how to get it working, please can I get some help on how I can fix this?

[Technogeezer]

What  you’re seeing is an issue with the xfce desktop environment that Kali Linux uses as its default. It does not detect resizing of the window as a trigger to change the resolution of the display like GNOME and KDE do. This is a long standing bug in xfce.

You can work around this by using the display preferences within the VM to reset the resolution of the VM once you have resized the window. The new size of the window should appear as one of the options.