Dark mode and multi monitor in Player
Article ID: 315644
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Products
VMware Desktop Hypervisor
Issue/Introduction
To inform the user about the issue and its workaround.
Symptoms:
Change the host machine color theme to dark mode on a Windows host machine with multiple monitors. Power on a VM with Workstation Player and click on "Enter Full Screen Mode" toolbar button. Click on "Cycle multiple monitors" tool bar button to change display topology. Observe that it doesn't make any changes in the display topology of the VM.
Symptoms:
Change the host machine color theme to dark mode on a Windows host machine with multiple monitors. Power on a VM with Workstation Player and click on "Enter Full Screen Mode" toolbar button. Click on "Cycle multiple monitors" tool bar button to change display topology. Observe that it doesn't make any changes in the display topology of the VM.
Environment
VMware Workstation Player 16.2.x (Windows)
VMware Workstation Player 16.2.x (Linux)
VMware Workstation Player 16.2.x (Linux)
Cause
The dark mode support does not work for multiple monitors.
Resolution
As of now please follow the workaround.
Workaround:
Set light mode for colors if using multiple monitors feature in Player.
Workaround:
Set light mode for colors if using multiple monitors feature in Player.
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