… aaaand I wanted to have a shared clipboard. It’s again all in the wiki, but again a bit distributed. So here we go.
First: Install open-vm-tools and gtkmm, then add some modules to system bootup
- “sudo pacman -S open-vm-tools gtkmm“
- “sudo vim /etc/mkinitcpio.conf”
- Under “MODULES=…” add the following: “vmxnet3 vmw_vmci vmw_pvscsi vmw_balloon”
(You probably don’t need most of them, but this is the config which worked for me. I didn’t try to remove them one-by-one to see which ones are actually needed) - “sudo mkinitcpio -p linux”
- reboot
Second, make sure “vmware-user-suid-wrapper” is stared on login:
- echo vmware-user-suid-wrapper > ~/.xinitrc
- Logout and log in (or reboot)
Done.