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mutter package

  1. Bug #1884754
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Niels Keurentjes (curry684) wrote : Fractional scaling broken in VMware Player

Related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/1825593, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1852860, but those report the issues are fixed. They also do not mention the VMware specific issues.

Install Ubuntu 20.04 in VMware Player, install open-vm-tools (done automatically with Easy Install), go to settings, enable Fractional Scaling and select any non-integer value.

Results:
 - The scaling is applied
 - VMware Tools (open-vm-tools) appears to break, no more seamless mouse between host and Ubuntu
 - After next reboot the setting is reverted to 100%

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: mutter 3.36.2-1ubuntu1~20.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-37.41-generic 5.4.41
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-37-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Jun 23 04:30:21 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-06-22 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mutter
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)