On 08/25/2011 01:13 PM, Michael Thayer wrote: > Hello JD, > > On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 11:43 -0700, JD wrote: >> On 08/25/2011 08:20 AM, Michael Thayer wrote: >>> VBoxClient --clipboard -d >> Thank you Michael. That worked. >> >> But I am wondering why it is not started automatically, >> even after selecting Install Guest Additions from >> the Devices menu. > During Additions installation we create a script which should be run > automatically at the beginning of every X session to start various > VBoxClient sub-processes (clipboard, dynamic resizing, seamless mode). > In order to make sure that it is started, we create a link to a script > which starts them in any of the following directories that exist on the > guest: > /etc/X11/xinit.d > /etc/xdg/autostart > /usr/share/autostart > /etc/X11/Xsession.d > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d > Perhaps Knoppix does not recognise any of these (or perhaps something > goes wrong in the installation before that). In any case, you can > add /usr/bin/VBoxClient-all to your X session to be sure that the > clipboard will be available automatically. > > Regards, > > Michael
ls of the dirs you mention show the following: ls -1 /etc/X11/xinit.d/* | grep -i vbox ls: cannot access /etc/X11/xinit.d/*: No such file or directory ls -1 /etc/xdg/autostart/* | grep -i vbox /etc/xdg/autostart/vboxclient.desktop ls -1 /usr/share/autostart/* | grep -i vbox /usr/share/autostart/vboxclient.desktop ls -1 /etc/X11/Xsession.d/* | grep -i vbox /etc/X11/Xsession.d/98vboxadd-xclient ls -1 /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/* | grep -i vbox ls: cannot access /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*: No such file or directory Also: $ grep -rli 'vboxclient\-all' /etc/X11/xinit.d /etc/xdg/autostart /usr/share/autostart /etc/X11/Xsession.d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d grep: /etc/X11/xinit.d: No such file or directory /etc/xdg/autostart/vboxclient.desktop /usr/share/autostart/vboxclient.desktop grep: /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d: No such file or directory $ cat /etc/xdg/autostart/vboxclient.desktop [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Encoding=UTF-8 Version=1.0 Name=vboxclient Name[C]=vboxclient Comment[C]=VirtualBox User Session Services Comment=VirtualBox User Session Services Comment[it]=Servizi di sessione utente di VirtualBox Comment[pl]=Us��ugi sesji u��ytkownika VirtualBox Exec=/usr/bin/VBoxClient-all <<== Its is (or should be) getting started X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true X-KDE-autostart-after=panel $ cat /usr/share/autostart/vboxclient.desktop [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Encoding=UTF-8 Version=1.0 Name=vboxclient Name[C]=vboxclient Comment[C]=VirtualBox User Session Services Comment=VirtualBox User Session Services Comment[it]=Servizi di sessione utente di VirtualBox Comment[pl]=Us��ugi sesji u��ytkownika VirtualBox Exec=/usr/bin/VBoxClient-all <<== Its is or should be getting started here also. X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true X-KDE-autostart-after=panel So, I do not really understand why these scripts are not being executed during bootup, or after the desktop is up and running in run level 5. Could be a knoppix issue ??? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
