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pico

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Registered: 2013-07-06

Posts: 18

[SOLVED] VMware guest copy/paste and drag'n'drop broken after upgrade

I have ArchLinux installed as guest in VMware.
I did not upgrade it for about a year and finally did it today with pacman -Syu
After upgrade resolution autofit AND copy/paste+drag'n'drop AND sound AND shared folders is broken.
Autofit fixed by

systemctl enable vmtoolsd.service

But I can't fix copy/paste+drag'n'drop.
I tried what wiki suggested:
- gtkmm3 is installed
- open-vm-tools is installed
- /etc/xdg/autostart/vmware-user.desktop does not exist. But /etc/vmware-tools/vmware-user.desktop does not exits either. (*Also solution for mounting problem does not work either. Attempting to install open-vm-tools-dkms fails on compilation due to errors in source code. So I suspect wiki may be outdated.)
- Modified my ~/.xinitrc as:

exec cinnamon-session
vmware-user

and

vmware-user &
exec cinnamon-session

both didn't help.
But I can't find other solution.
Any suggestions how to fix copy/paste+drag'n'drop?
Thank you in advance.

Last edited by pico (2019-07-26 10:34:04)

pico

Member

Registered: 2013-07-06

Posts: 18

Re: [SOLVED] VMware guest copy/paste and drag'n'drop broken after upgrade

I found out that if I run `vmware-user` then copy-paste starting to work.
Then I found that my /etc/xdg/autostart/vmware-user.desktop is empty. For some magically unknown reason. So I pasted there something from google and it did not work due to wrong exec thing, so long story short.
My /etc/xdg/autostart/vmware-user.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=vmware-user-suid-wrapper
Name=VMware User Agent
# KDE bug 190522: KDE does not autostart items with NoDisplay=true...
# NoDisplay=true
X-KDE-autostart-phase=1

My ~/.xinitrc

exec cinnamon-session

Works great!