I've re-installed VM Ware Tools (following instructions from here Ubuntu 15.10: multiple monitors do not work within VMware). I've also tried following this
but no luck. Please let me know if there is anything else I can try!
4 Answers
With VMWare Fusion
Click View > Use All Displays in Full Screen if Use Single Display in Full Screen Mode is enabled.
on the VMWare Fusion menu, as indicated in the documentation.
After that, all the displays should be available to configure in Settings > Displays in Ubuntu. You don't have to restart Ubuntu, it can be done while it is open.
If you have three screens, I suggest starting with the Ubuntu window in the middle, as it failed to detect the middle monitor on my first try.
It looks like this is an issue with Ubuntu 16.04 in particular. I switched to 14.04 and dual monitor now works.
This seems to be a bug in ubuntu open-vm-tools in combination with ubuntu 16.04. Vmware did notice the issue in the release notes of vmware player and workstation.
I have tried several things but without luck. Reverting back to 14.04 seems to be the only solution at this point.
Upgrading to Kernel 4.6.0 did the trick for me.
My Setup: Ubuntu 16.04 guest with Open VM Tools installed, running on VMWare Workstation 10.0.7
Update
Spoke too soon. 4.6.0 brings it's own problem, which is that I can't cycle back to a single monitor. However downgrading the kernel to 4.3.6 as discussed here, seem to be have fixed the issue.
