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I everyone.

I have a trouble with VMWare Virtual. I used Lubuntu LXDE 15.10. I can't copy and paste although I have completed install VMware-tools. I can resize windows and enable shared folder but I can't copy and paste text from host to VM computer. I have tried:

1: Reinstall VMWare tool

2: Follow Exactly step by step from this answer: Copy and paste in VMWare doesn't work

but those solutions doesn't work,

Does anyone get a tip?

Thank's

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HoangHieu
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I had the same issue recently. On my Debian-based Linux Guest System, I've learned, that VMware Tools are no longer recommended for Linux. Instead, I had to install the following packages:

sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop

Please note, that open-vm-tools alone will i.e. adjust display size, but (at least in my case) was not able to provide copy-paste-functionality, as it is x-server-related. This was then however included in open-vm-tools-desktop. It depends on you linux distribution, if there are more than one package to install.

Source: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools

"Will there be continued support for VMware Tools and OSP?

VMware Tools will continue to be available under a commercial license. It is recommended that open-vm-tools be used for the Linux distributions where open-vm-tools is available. VMware will not provide OSPs for operating systems where open-vm-tools is available."

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