Choppy slow animation when opening Show Applications (launcher) on Ubuntu 20.04 on VMware VM

I have updated my Ubuntu VMware vm from 18.04 to 20.04 yesterday and everything is working fine, except the animation for the launcher, which is really choppy.

If I turn on Zoom in universal access and set it to 1, then the animation works flawlessly.

Here is a screen recording with no zoom vs 1x zoom (imgur link)

I have not noticed any other issues with animations anywhere else, not any issues playing video.

I have Fractional Scaling off.

I am not having this issue if I select Ubuntu On Wayland when logging in. I did not have this issue on 18.04.

Output of lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display':

VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter
Subsystem: VMware SVGA II Adapter
Kernel driver in use: vmwgfx
Kernel modules: vmwgfx

This is the configuration (imgur link) I have for this VM (it also has 1 gb of video memory, but even if I set it to 2gb the launcher animation is still choppy):

Do you have any idea what might be causing this choppy animation only for the launcher?

Thank you!

P.S.: my reputation is too low to post images, that is why I have added hyperlinks to Imgur

2 Answers

I switched from Xorg to Wayland and the issue was solved

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You should try to log in Xorg instead, in case you are on Wayland (log out, press the settings button on the bottom right and select Xorg).

This should solve the problem.

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