topic Re: Copy/Paste, Fusion Accessibility setting and Mouse Clicks not working in VMware Fusion Discussions

Copy/Paste, Fusion Accessibility setting and Mouse Clicks not working

gregory333 — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 02:05:20 GMT

Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this problem.

Platform:

2015 Intel iMac 32GB running Monterey 12.7.1 (yes, time for an upgrade)

VMWare Fusion 12.2.5

Guest OS - Ubuntu (19 and 22)

Problem:

Copy and paste does not work between Guest to Host operating systems. Yes, I have uninstalled and reinstalled the open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop packages several times. I have also unchecked and rechecked the isolation options several times. When I set the privacy and security option on the MacOS to grant the VM permission to control the host OS the mouse clicks stop working in the guest operating system. I have removed and added Fusion into the list several times. Options to fix that problems like adding:

mouse.vsub.startConnected = "FALSE"

to the .vmx file have not solved the problem.

Anyone else had this problem? Were you able to solve it?

Thanks,

Greg G.

Re: Copy/Paste, Fusion Accessibility setting and Mouse Clicks not working

Technogeezer — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 01:57:00 GMT

Is the VM running X11(Xorg) or Wayland?

And by "copy/paste" does that mean copy and paste of text or drag/drop of files between the host and guest?

Re: Copy/Paste, Fusion Accessibility setting and Mouse Clicks not working

gregory333 — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 02:18:11 GMT

Both Copy/Paste and drag/drop are not working.

Window manager is the default - Wayland. Switching to X11 made no difference.

Greg

Re: Copy/Paste, Fusion Accessibility setting and Mouse Clicks not working

Technogeezer — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 02:34:49 GMT

Which "22" version? 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) or 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu)?

What kernel version are you running?

Re: Copy/Paste, Fusion Accessibility setting and Mouse Clicks not working

Technogeezer — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 04:56:46 GMT

As a test, I've just installed Ubuntu Desktop 22.04.3 LTS on Fusion 13.5 / 2014 Mac mini / Monterey 12.7.1. I chose not to use Easy Install (I've found that to be wonky and not of much value).

I double checked Security & Privacy settings on my Mac. Under Accessibility, VMware Fusion.app is allowed to control my computer - that absolutely needs to be enabled for Fusion to work properly. That begs the question: why isn't the guest picking up the mouse?

Copy and paste of text works properly both ways (host -> guest and guest -> host). Drag and drop does not work with a Wayland session, but does with an Xorg (X11 session).

You say that you've tried installing/reinstalling open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools desktop. Did you check to see if the old-style VMware Tools are installed (they shouldn't be)...

Also is 3D acceleration enabled? If so, is the shared graphics memory in the Display setting of the VM set to 8192 (the recommended value).

This is a strange one. Definitely need more info on the version of Ubuntu that you're running. Perhaps also a look at the vmware.log and mksSandbox.log files would yield some clues about what's going on. (zip them up and post them if you could).

Re: Copy/Paste, Fusion Accessibility setting and Mouse Clicks not working

gregory333 — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:43:47 GMT

Ubuntu 19.10

$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 5.15.0-88-generic #98-Ubuntu SMP Mon Oct 2 15:18:56 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

and

Ubuntu 22.04.3

$uname -a

Linux play-stuff 6.2.0-36-generic #37~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Oct 9 15:34:04 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Re: Copy/Paste, Fusion Accessibility setting and Mouse Clicks not working

gregory333 — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:53:34 GMT

So I did have the old-style VMWare tools installed on the 19.10 version - this is the one that required running a Perl script. I'm pretty sure I removed that before I installed the packages. I did not install it on the 22.04.3 version.

Attached are the log files from both.

Thanks for your help.

Re: Copy/Paste, Fusion Accessibility setting and Mouse Clicks not working

gregory333 — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:55:57 GMT

Also, 3D acceleration is enable and memory is set to 8192.

Re: Copy/Paste, Fusion Accessibility setting and Mouse Clicks not working

Technogeezer — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 20:24:02 GMT

Thanks and I'll take a look at the logs and see if I can find anything.

Was this a first-time installation of Fusion on this Mac, or has it been through iterations of both macOS and Fusion upgrades?