Hi,
I installed VMware Workstation 14.1.2 on two Ubuntu 18.04 machines (one laptop, one desktop), both fully up to date. On the desktop, it seems to work fine. But on the laptop when I go to Edit>Preferences, the program just disappears. It's the same issue as reported here: VMWare Workstation 14 Crashes when selecting Edit->Preferences from Ubuntu 18.04
I've tried my best to compare the two machines but I haven't been able to find any difference in the installed package versions. I've also run "lsof" to compare the list of shared libraries that are loaded, and they are identical between both systems. So I'm really at a loss here...
I've attached the VMware log. Any advice on what I can do?
Edit: I just had the idea of trying a Wayland session on my laptop instead of X11, and when I do that I'm able to see the Preferences menu... But on my desktop it works fine on X11! I have Intel integrated graphics on the laptop, and a Radeon card on my desktop - could that be the difference that is causing the problem?