Copy and Paste in VMWare

asked 2013-06-24 12:38:40 +0000

Wolven
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Hi. I've just installed the i3 window manager on Arch Linux, running from a Virtual Machine (VMWare) on a Windows 7 system. And I can't get the copy/paste working between W7 and i3 on Arch. Copy and Paste works fine between the host and guest when I'm running Xfce, but not for i3. (VMWare-tools are installed.)

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answered 2013-06-26 11:34:20 +0000

Wolven
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Hi.

Thank you for your reply.

I've got the official VMware tools installed on the system and not the Open-VM-Tools, so I do not have the "vmware-user-suid-wrapper" command as described in the docs.

I might give the Open-VM-Tools a try to see of it makes a difference, but as stated in the first post. Copy and Paste works fine between the host and guest OS when I'm using Xfce as DE.

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Not a specialist here, but I would contrast `pstree -ap` from the xfce session with the i3 session. It will lead to a hint. Be sure to answer your own question ;) Good luck!