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

From 5 minutes to 10 seconds

So I did some work for our client that reduced the perceived time it takes their product to show a list of content to the user from about 5 minutes to 10 seconds tops. We also moved the "that's enough items to consider" maximum use case from about 1000 to 4000 items. Lots of useful performance optimizations and moving of operations to background tasks.

Sweet.

Hopefully the update comes out soon.