Comment # 5 on bug 943868 from Thomas Hellstr�m

So I installed OpenSUSE Leap 42.1.

Under Xorg everything looks like I expect, from what I can tell,

after running "sudo zypper install gnome-shell-wayland", I still can't get a
gnome wayland session, according to the logs that's because gnome-shell doesn't
accept the --wayland flag and exits immediately. Any info on how I can get
around that is appreciated.

In any case, could you describe the procedure to reproduce this with Xorg? 
* what you are doing (the command run etc.)
* what you expect to see
* what you are seeing.

Unfortunately open-vm-tools does not yet support resolution switching with
gnome-wayland. It requires both kernel support and support to open-vm-tools and
I have as of today no information as to when or if this will be supported.

That said, using the gnome-shell "displays" tool should allow you to manually
select a resolution from a list of default built-in resolutions.