vmware
Copying text to the host from (pure) Wayland clients doesn't work on Fedora 32
Since Fedora 31, Qt Wayland is on by default, meaning that Qt apps on Fedora 31+ don't use xcb anymore by default. Alas open-vm-tools seems to only work on xcb clients when it come to copying text of them.
On Fedora 32, if I start a Qt app (e.g. qjackctl) with the default settings, then I cannot copy out text of it to the VMware host (copying inside the VM from one app to another works fine still), but if I start the app with QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb which forces Xwayland fallback in Qt, then it does work to copy out from the (Qt X11) app to the VM host.
I also see that
$ xlsclients
localhost.localdomain ibus-x11
localhost.localdomain vmware-user
localhost.localdomain gsd-xsettings
localhost.localdomain gnome-shell
which suggest that the vmware tools only run under Xwayland.
A bit more googling suggests that this is a known issue; https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/74671
Note that Drag-and-Drop and Copy-and-Paste is currently not working with Wayland. Log in with an X11 session instead.
Yes, this is a known issue. Wayland support is currently under development.
I run it with my Manjaro. For now i found a workaround to be able to work. sadly without wayland. Manjaro has the option to switch on x11 on the bootscreen. Here I still have problems. But if i boot in my Manjaro with x11 and execute vmware-user i can use full c&p mounts and so on till i restart. The downside is i have to run the vmware-user on every restart and i cant put it in ausostart. Also i had to enable a service that was disabled by default. It looks like there are stange gtk calls in the background that let u run the stuff.
Anyways i still wait fur a functional wayland integration. But i don't have high hopes for that. I guess a lot of stuff has to be written new for that. Some Informations from the devs would be helpfull here. even if it is a "it will take at least..." or a "we will not support it".
I use copyQ which kind of works. You have to move the mouse to the GUI of VMware first and then move it to Wayland native windows. That works on Sway at least. If you move the mouse to fast, X has no time to sync the clipboard, which causes the sync to the Wayland clipboard to fail.
VMware should just allow for a Wayland native GUI. That would work wonders.
The downside is i have to run the vmware-user on every restart and i cant put it in ausostart.
Same here with Kubuntu 22.04 and above. See #568.
Sadly commercial licenses for Virtualbox extensions come in 100+ packs. Thank you Oracle for not providing single seat licenses. 😢