Ubuntu – Copy/paste not working in Vmware

16.04vmwarevmware-tools

I run my Ubuntu in a VMWare virtual machine that is hosted by Win10. Vmware tools is installed.

I can't copy from notepad in Windows and paste into Ubuntu applications. Vice versa works fine. The virtual machine settings for copy/paste – enabled:

settings

How to enable copy from Windows 10 and paste to Ubuntu.

Best Answer

Feels like I found an answer (I used it for 17.10 )

In the terminal window execute this command to remove any previously installed tools:

sudo apt-get autoremove open-vm-tools

and after that execute this command to add tools:

sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop

and a final thing: do not forget to reboot.

It worked very well for me!

Related Question