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evvaletov

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From: Batavia, IL

Registered: 2020-06-24

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Copy-and-paste in Arch with dwm as a VMWare client

I followed the instructions at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VM … as_a_guest to install open-vm-tools and other necessary tools to use Arch in a VMWare Workstation VM. To enable copy-and-paste between the host and the client, I carefully followed the "Drag and drop, copy/paste" subsection.

I think that copy-and-paste should be working at this point, but it doesn't. It seems that the issue has something to do with using dwm as a window manager. I found a comment at https://qastack.ru/ubuntu/691585/copy-p … ith-ubuntu where somebody had a similar issue; they could copy-and-paste between the host and the client when using gdm3 but could no longer do that when they switched to dwm.

Copy-and-paste does work in dwm; it just doesn't work between the host and the client running Arch with dwm.

Is perhaps someone familiar with this issue? I would appreciate advice on how to make it work.

Last edited by evvaletov (2020-06-24 14:20:06)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Copy-and-paste in Arch with dwm as a VMWare client

You do have gtkmm3 installed on the guest ?

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evvaletov

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From: Batavia, IL

Registered: 2020-06-24

Posts: 2

Re: Copy-and-paste in Arch with dwm as a VMWare client

Yes, I do have gtkmm3 installed on the guest.

Last edited by evvaletov (2020-06-25 10:38:19)