A fix for VMware 17 not following system GTK theme

[Omv3690]

You may have found that VMware workstation/player is not following the GTK theme that you’ve set, looking like this

This is due to VMware loading the outdated GTK 3.14 library bundled with it instead of the system’s GTK 3.24.

The workaround is navigating to /usr/lib/vmware/lib/ and removing/renaming these 5 folders (kudos berolinux for the hint):

libpango-1.0.so.0
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0
libgtk-3.so.0
libgdk-3.so.0

“Also remove or rename /usr/lib/vmware/libconf/etc/gtk-3.0/gschemas.compiled so that VMware doesn’t crash upon opening a file dialog”

VMware will now respect your theming

[rugyada]

Thank you!
we could merge the 2 topics
(one is Getting VMware to run on OpenMandriva)
into a vmware tutorial

[Omv3690]

Oh this isn’t an OM specific issue, it can happen on any distro with plasma 6.2+ preinstalled (including fedora 41) so more of a general advice hence I’ve put up a separate topic in coffee break, but ye sure if you’d like that