Public bug reported: In a VMware virtual machine, with open-vm-tools-desktop installed, there should be a user process being started (via vmware-user-suid-wrapper in /etc/xdg/autostart/vmware-user.desktop) , so that automatic resolution setting, copy and paste and drag and drop work.
The file /etc/xdg/autostart/vmware-user.desktop is there, however there is no vmtoolsd user process running after login: $ ps awx | grep vmtoolsd 981 ? Ssl 0:00 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd 1935 pts/1 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto vmtoolsd Starting the user process manually with vmware-user-suid-wrapper works. This has been reported initially by microcoder on github: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm- tools/issues/152#issuecomment-290506648 (note that that issue also tracks a different issue that is probably unrelated). ** Affects: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1682647 Title: vmtoolsd user process is not started for KDE session in kubuntu 17.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1682647/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
