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I tried installing(Manjaro) via: sudo sh ./Downloads/VMware-Horizon-Client-5.3.0-15208949.x64.bundle

and after typing "yes" to agree i just get a:

Installation was unsuccessful.

Any thoughts on how to install?

yes. I use full screen on all monitors and enable display on the secondary monitor. Pulldown of top bar can be triggered from the same location on the primary monitor. Must be some recent bug. This wasn't the case in a previous version.

Has anyone else experienced the issue where the docked top bar won't come down when you hover over it?

@KorvinSilver In case of problems with the display resolution just disable display scaling. In the Linux build of the software it doesn't show the option to disable scaling, so you have to add the line view.enableDisplayScaling = "FALSE" to the file ~/.vmware/view-preferences.

New update, new problem. My fullHD monitor is recognized as having 2490x1400 resolution. They say the problem is not on the VDI side but with the client. I can barely work, everything's so small and since all the display settings are locked on the system (enterprise logic). Any idea what the problem might be? There was also an nvidia update before this first occurred as well. For now I downgraded to 5.0.0-1, that works.

I resolved the problem @KorvinSilver. If you are using a VPN or proxy, you need to use cntlm to tunnel all connection.

-> yay cntlm
-> # edit /etc/cntlm.conf
-> sudo systemctl start cntlm 
-> sudo systemctl enable cntlm 
-> # edit ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc ( 
-> # export HTTP_PROXY="http://127.0.0.1:3128"
-> # export HTTPS_PROXY=$HTTP_PROXY

after doing that, you can try start again you vmware-horizon-client

Deleted all packages and reinstalled it from the archlinuxcn repo. Now it works, although in theory it's the same version just prebuilt. Here's the output difference:

Using log file /tmp/vmware-korvin/vmware-horizon-client-12907.log
2019-05-04 10:46:08.012+02:00: vmware-view 12907| Failed to open file “/etc/vmware/udpProxy/config”: No such file or directory
2019-05-04 10:46:08.078+02:00: vmware-view 12907| Not valid URL 'Add Server'
2019-05-04 10:46:17.596+02:00: vmware-view 12907| udpProxyLib: FECHostSocket_Specialise: failed to get desired receive bufsize: 425984

2019-05-04 10:46:17.596+02:00: vmware-view 12907| udpProxyLib: socket 101 transition to state SYN_SENT, reason FECSocketDoConnect refCount 4

2019-05-04 10:46:17.654+02:00: vmware-view 12907| udpProxyLib: socket 101 transition to state CLOSED, reason FECSocketDoClose refCount 6

2019-05-04 10:47:03.808+02:00: vmware-view 12907| g_file_read_link: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed
2019-05-04 10:47:04.610+02:00: vmware-view 12907| CdkRpc_ProcessResponseForCall: Returning the whole response for not finding response element of feature-configurations
2019-05-04 10:47:04.611+02:00: vmware-view 12907| CdkGetFeatureConfigTask_Transition: Ignore error (1664,13,missing content) for GetFeatureConfigTask.
2019-05-04 10:47:07.902+02:00: vmware-view 12907| g_file_read_link: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed
2019-05-04 10:47:12.615+02:00: vmware-view 12907| cdk_remote_desktop_get_usb_controller: assertion 'CDK_IS_REMOTE_DESKTOP(remote)' failed
2019-05-04 10:47:12.615+02:00: vmware-view 12907| void cdk_usb_controller_set_available(gpointer, gboolean): assertion 'controller != NULL' failed
2019-05-04 10:47:12.624+02:00: vmware-view 12907| Failed to exec kreadconfig --file kscreensaverrc --group ScreenSaver --key Timeout
2019-05-04 10:47:12.626+02:00: vmware-view 12907| Failed to exec kreadconfig --file /home/korvin/.config/kscreenlockerrc --group Daemon --key Timeout --default 5
2019-05-04 10:47:12.684+02:00: vmware-view 12907| rmksContainer(12991): HostinfoReadDistroFile: Cannot work with empty file.
2019-05-04 10:47:12.961+02:00: vmware-view 12907| rmksContainer(12991): CreateMKSInterface: forcing mount, Remote MKS already present
2019-05-04 10:47:12.961+02:00: vmware-view 12907| rmksContainer(12991): OnMountUnmount: (0, 0) 758 X 480.
2019-05-04 10:47:16.109+02:00: vmware-view 12907| rmksContainer(12991): OnDisplayTopologyChanged: monitor 0: left=0, top=0, right=1920, bottom=1080

I can't reproduce, sorry... Everything works as expected for me.

I am having the exact same issue as KorvinSilver.