I had similar problem and made it work with this command: VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force vmware-server-console
Or you may add "VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_GTK=force" at the beginning of file /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh
I had similar problem and made it work with this command: USE_SHIPPED_ GTK=force vmware- server- console
VMWARE_
Or you may add "VMWARE_ USE_SHIPPED_ GTK=force" at the beginning of file /usr/lib/ vmware- server- console/ lib/wrapper- gtk24.sh