Sympton:
Your display no longer autosizes for your Linux guest, running under VmWare workstation.
Cause:
This seems to be caused by a race condition where the open-vm-tools try to activate before the graphic environment is available.
Resolution:
Edit the configuration file for open-vm-tools, by running
nano sudo /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/open-vm-tools.service
And add the following lines in the UNIT section of the file:
Requires=graphical.target After=graphical.targ