[solved] Mint 18, VMWare Workstation 12, Menus partly missing

[sbaumgartner]

Hello community,

I have installed Mint 18 Cinnamon on a Lenovo T440s and almost everything is working properly - as far as I have investigated at least.

But I have a minor problem with VMWare Workstation 12 - I can only see the "File" menu in the menu bar - see screenshot.



The menu items are there, if I hover over the space, where the menu items are supposed to be I can access the menu items ...

I have done some research and came accross the following article:

viewtopic.php?t=169197

But the suggested solution does not work for me as the referenced packages are already installed (with a newer version though):

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baumi@beryll ~ $ dpkg -l | grep -E "^ii\s+libgtkmm.*"
ii  libgtkmm-2.4-1v5:amd64      1:2.24.4-2          amd64        C++ wrappers for GTK+ (shared libraries)
ii  libgtkmm-3.0-1v5:amd64      3.18.0-1            amd64        C++ wrappers for GTK+ (shared libraries)

Did anyone else experience the same problem and has solved it?

Thanks in advance, best regards
Stefan

[matt]

Have you tried reinstalling VMware?

[sbaumgartner]

After I installed VMware the auto-update came up and I updated ... same behaviour as before.

[matt]

Check out these links. Although I'm aware that your host OS is not Windows, you can try the solutions these are users are suggesting. I used VMware Workstation back when I was using W10. I switched to VirtualBox when I went to Linux on single boot. I'm only using Linux ISOs on my guest OS.
http://www.ericgoldman.name/en/2009/vmw ... -toolbars/
https://askubuntu.com/questions/554528/ ... ot-visible

[getut]

I don't have the resolution to this problem, because I have it also, but I have additional information that may help someone more knowledgeable help us.

To make sure we are still talking about the same problem, we're talking about a Linux Mint HOST running VMware Workstation. The problem is purely with the host, not with any guest OS's. This same problem existed for me in Mint 17 since VMware workstation 10. The file menu is present but edit and everything to the right of that is invisible, but there and still works if you click on it.

The fix that I found in this thread ( viewtopic.php?t=169197 ) for this issue in previous versions was to install the libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a package. But this package has no candidate in Mint 18 as 18 has gone to newer packages that don't fix the issue but there is still just something small missing.

[sbaumgartner]

Exactly. :/

[lachabe]

you can fix it if you change the theme. It work with awaida theme.

[t5un4m1]

This is still an issue with LM18/Cinnamon. Also the 12.5 update to workstation doesn't fix the problem.

[sowenby]

Hinto's suggestion below does work. My original suggestion only worked with Adwaita Theme.

[deleted]

edit /etc/vmware/bootstrap to add:

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export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK="yes"

-Hinto

[sbaumgartner]

Thank you Hinto - this fixed this issue.

[deleted]

Cool.
I've been a fan of VMWare for years (and I don't work for them )
-H

[nbholt]

Just upgraded to Mint 18 yesterday. I had the same issue with VMplayer 12.5 and VMworkstation missing the menu iems.
This resolved my issues.

Thank you for your post.

[mtrento]

edit /etc/vmware/bootstrap to add:

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export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK="yes"

-Hinto

Thanks hinto this worked for me aswell.
By the way it solved another problem with vmware workstation 12.5 where the windows auto minimized when opening a virtual machine.
For all others , make sure you include the "export" in the command

Cheers.

[deleted]

Cool.
I found I had to re-do it when I updated the Player (there's a new one now)
-H

[bookter]

edit /etc/vmware/bootstrap to add:

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export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK="yes"

-Hinto

Thank you!

[supertzar]

Hinto's suggestion worked here too. Workstation 12.5.6 on Mint 18. Thanks.

[masterpro0415]

Hinto. Do you know how to fix this error. I can't connect to internet by using vmware workstation 12. When I click on Vitual Network Editor have an alert :" Network Configuration is missing. Ensure that /etc/vmware/networking exits. Anyone know please help me. thank you

[deleted]

In the terminal, try:

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sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

This will rebuild all of your modules.

Check to see if everything builds.

-H

[gsaran88]

edit /etc/vmware/bootstrap to add:

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export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK="yes"

-Hinto

Excellent. Thanks a lot for your help. Now it is fixed for me.