Please note: /usr/share/applications/vmware-toolbox.desktop is a
different file and used for the GTK frontend of the open-vm-tools.

The sed command changes the executable in the Exec line from whatever
was in there before to "vmware-toolbox". This seems to be necessary
because the binary was renamed from its original name by the
Debian/Ubuntu maintainer.

The vmware-user.desktop file on the other hand only launches the suid-
wrapper (responsible for preparing working cut'n'paste and dynamic
screen resizing) during user login and does nothing else. In Lucid this
file and corresponding symlink in /etc/xdg/autostart was shipped in the
open-vm-toolbox package while in Natty only the symlink exists, the real
desktop file has been lost.

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  vmware-user-suid-wrapper is not executed on login

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