Fixing screen resize for linux in VMWare

If the screen stops resizing when running Linux under VMWare, check the following:

• VMWare tools are installed, configured and running.

• Virtual Machine Settings for Display are set to Use host setting for monitors

• Check that Xorg is able to load the needed modules

  Search /var/log/Xorg.0.log for possible issues with VMWare, i.e. grep "vmware" -A 5 -B 5 < Xorg.0.log. Such issues could include being unable to load require modules such as vmwgfx or vmwlegacy

  If there are, uninstalling and reinstalling the package xserver-xorg-video-vmware might help as suggested in their forums