Linux – How to get full screen in Mint Linux under VMware player

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I just installed VMware player and Mint Linux; however, only a small portion of the VMware window is used. I want Linux to take up the entire screen. How do I change this? In Linux I tried going to menu->displays but nothing happens (I think the window may be opening off screen).

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I believe you're missing VMWare Tools, an application that is installed on the guest OS, and allows communication back to the VMWare environment so that you can go full screen, and copy files from the guest to the host (and vice versa).

Warning: It can be a pain to install VMWare Tools on an OS is not supported.

Here is a video on installing VMware tools on Mint Linux.

Otherwise you need to change the screen resolution for your Linux install. See here for instructions.

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If lspci|grep snd_ens1371 gives some output the sound kernel modules are loaded & sound is probably muted in alsamixer. Muted channels show up as 'MM' & can be unmuted by selecting them & pressing M.

If alsamixer does not detect a sound card run:

alsactl init

If you are using pulseaudio check /etc/asound.confcontains a minimum of:

pcm.pulse { type pulse }
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pcm.!default { type pulse }
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I also changed the sound device settings in VMWARE to my detected speakers (from default host device).

Reboot & sound will work.

This fixed xfce4-volume-control / gstreamer complaining no sound card can be found & warning of a possible permissions problem. Trying to run just ALSA under Debian Wheezy 64 bit in VMWARE still gave this gstreamer error. VMWARE seems to run a little better with pulseaudio also being installed (sound in Virtualbox ran just fine with only ALSA).

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