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Solaryte

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Registered: 2022-12-23

Posts: 4

Unable to copy and paste through host and guest in VMware Workstation

Hi, i have installed Arch Linux in a virtual machine with open-vm-tools, and i want copy and paste to work on my system.
I have tried modifying crontab, edited KDE autostart settings and have also tried xinitrc, Note that i also have gtkmm3 installed, and i have enabled the vmtoolsd service and vmware-vmblock-fuse service.
Copy and paste is only enabled when i run `vmware-user` through the command line or running `vmware-user` and then doing ^C.
Can i have help on automatically enabling copy and paste in vmware workstation?
My current version of open-vm-tools is `open-vm-tools 6:12.2.0-1`, and gtkmm3's version is `gtkmm3 3.24.7-1`
I also have xf86-video-vmware and xf86-input-vmmouse installed.

Here is my system info:

Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.105.0
Qt Version: 5.15.9
Kernel Version: 6.2.10-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 2 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 3.8 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: SVGA3D; build: RELEASE; LLVM;
Manufacturer: VMware, Inc.
Product Name: VMware7,1
System Version: None

Help will be appreciated.
Thank you.

Last edited by Solaryte (2023-04-14 09:08:25)

set

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Registered: 2023-04-14

Posts: 15

Re: Unable to copy and paste through host and guest in VMware Workstation

I don't know much about VM-ware,
more in Virtual box it works smooth, installing the virtual-guest-iso,
and activating the bidirectional