plasma desktop background doesn't resize when VMWare resizes

[Yi Ding]

When I resize the VMWare window, the desktop background size stays the same and leaves a black space around it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: plasma-desktop 4:5.2.2-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-18.18-generic 3.19.6
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Sat May 30 10:29:52 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-25 (35 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: plasma-desktop
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Yi Ding (yi-s-ding)]

Confirmed that this only happens on Kubuntu and not Fedora.

[Marco Parillo (marco-parillo)]

Could this be related: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342978

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Yi Ding (yi-s-ding)]

Yes I think so. Although this problem doesn't occur on Fedora.

[Marco Parillo (marco-parillo)]

Fedora 22 KDE Spin?

[Marco Parillo (marco-parillo)]

I can confirm that this does not occur on the 32-bit Fedora 22 KDE spin in VMware Player (Win7 Host), but it does occur on Kubuntu.

[Yi Ding (yi-s-ding)]

Yes exactly.
On Jun 5, 2015 5:10 AM, "Marco Parillo" <email address hidden> wrote:

> Fedora 22 KDE Spin?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1460325
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> Title:
> plasma desktop background doesn't resize when VMWare resizes
>
> Status in plasma-desktop package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> When I resize the VMWare window, the desktop background size stays the
> same and leaves a black space around it.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
> Package: plasma-desktop 4:5.2.2-0ubuntu4
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-18.18-generic 3.19.6
> Uname: Linux 3.19.0-18-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: KDE
> Date: Sat May 30 10:29:52 2015
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-25 (35 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64
> (20150422)
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: plasma-desktop
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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[Marco Parillo (marco-parillo)]

I ran this from real HW (sorry, different computer this morning, so it is not installed).

apt-cache policy open-vm-tools-desktop
open-vm-tools-desktop:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2:9.4.6-1770165-8ubuntu1
  Version table:
     2:9.4.6-1770165-8ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/main i386 Packages

Do you know the equivalent command in Fedora? Perhaps there is a different version of open-vm-tools-desktop there?

[Marco Parillo (marco-parillo)]

On Fedora 22 KDE Spin, Apper reports that open-vm-tools-desktop is 9.10.0-4.fc22
I wonder if Fedora's 9.10.0 is ahead of Ubuntu's 9.4.6 and this can be resolved by packaging the newer release.

https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/commit/f815ec597079716da64d51465f2a33c65427053b
seems to say that master stable is 9.10.0

[Marco Parillo (marco-parillo)]

Does this still occur? I see Kubuntu now matches the original Fedora 22 KDE Spin:

apt-cache policy open-vm-tools-desktop
open-vm-tools-desktop:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2:9.10.2-2822639-1ubuntu3
  Version table:
     2:9.10.2-2822639-1ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/main i386 Packages

[Marco Parillo (marco-parillo)]

After confirming that the version of open-vm-tools-desktop matches Fedora 22 KDE spin, and testing under Wily Daily Builds, I am closing the bug.