Uninstall VMware Player – How to Uninstall VMware Player

If the automatic mode fails yo could try with xrandr in a console to see which resolutions Ubuntu supports. It will give you something like this:

$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192
VGA1 connected 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 410mm x 230mm
   1366x768       59.8*+
   1024x768       75.1     70.1     60.0  
   832x624        74.6  
   800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2  
   640x480        72.8     75.0     66.7     60.0  
   720x400        70.1  

And then:

$xrandr -s  1366x768

The libcanberra errors seems to be resolvable using a symbolic link as follows:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so /usr/lib/libcanberra-gtk-module.so

Also, you'll need the build-essential, open-vm-tools and open-vm-toolbox packages, install them using:

 sudo apt-get install build-essential open-vm-tools open-vm-toolbox

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