Following up with Copy/paste and drag&drop not working in VMware machine with Ubuntu,
For any Live Linux system (Ubuntu, KUbuntu, LUbuntu, etc), I don't think copy/paste text can be working out of the box. However, from the above answer, the solution is simple, as far as normal Linux system is concerned, just to install open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop.
However, the last step from the above answer is,
Reboot the VM, after the reboot copy/paste and drag/drop will work!
That's problematic for a Live Linux system, because if I reboot, I'll loose everything I've just done.
So what's the magic of the reboot? Can I have the copy/paste functionality without a system reboot?
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