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?

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

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

Greg

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

What kernel version are you running?

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).

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

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.

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

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?