Fixing fullscreen issue with VMware 12 and Ubuntu 16.04

I had an issue where the VMware Tools would not expand my Ubuntu to full screen within the player. A fix I found was this: Open a terminal and enter

#Find the screen resolutions available to you
$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 1 x 1, current 1920 x 1440, maximum 16384 x 16384
Virtual1 connected primary 1920x1440+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   800x600       60.00 +  60.32  
   2560x1600     59.99  
   1920x1440     60.00* 
   1856x1392     60.00  
   1792x1344     60.00  
   1920x1200     59.88  
   1600x1200     60.00  
   1680x1050     59.95  
   1400x1050     59.98  
   1280x1024     60.02  
   1440x900      59.89  
   1280x960      60.00  
   1360x768      60.02  
   1280x800      59.81  
   1152x864      75.00  
   1280x768      59.87  
   1024x768      60.00  
   640x480       59.94  
Virtual2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Virtual3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Virtual4 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Virtual5 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Virtual6 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Virtual7 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Virtual8 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

$ xrandr -s 1920x1440

The screen should reload to the appropriate size.