Tracker item #2298353, was opened at 2008-11-16 04:46 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by mvanzin You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=989708&aid=2298353&group_id=204462
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: vmware-user Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: lucatrv (lucatrv) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: vmware-user does not autostart Initial Comment: Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 Although the vmware-user.desktop link is present in /etc/xdg/autostart , vmware-user does not start automatically at boot. So copy/past doesn't work. This has a very quick fix: add the line line "Type=Application" in the file vmware-user.desktop $ cat vmware-user.desktop [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Encoding=UTF-8 Exec=vmware-user-suid-wrapper Name=VMware User Agent X-KDE-autostart-phase=1 NoDisplay=true Now vmware-user starts at boot so copy/paste works. Please add this very quick fix to the next release... Thanks PS. to improve your documentation page (http://open-vm-tools.wiki.sourceforge.net/Packaging) I think you should add under the vmhgfs paragraph (after the fstab description) a phrase telling that if one doesn't want that updatedb indexes all the shared folder it is necessary to add "vmhgfs" in the file /etc/updatedb.conf after "PRUNEFS=". In fact, this was automatically done by the old perl installer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Marcelo Vanzin (mvanzin) Date: 2008-11-18 18:24 Message: This is fixed in the latest code refresh (2008.11.18). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Syd Logan (slogan621) Date: 2008-11-17 00:07 Message: Thanks, we ran into that fix a week or so ago and the fix you described should be in an upcoming release. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: lucatrv (lucatrv) Date: 2008-11-16 13:50 Message: Ops, sorry, I didn't notice it was mentioned already. So you can ignore the last "PS" part of my post. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Ragavan S (ragavan_s) Date: 2008-11-16 13:20 Message: Thanks for submitting this. With regards to the documentation suggestion, I think we already mention this in the vmhgfs section: "We typically exclude vmhgfs from the locate database as crawling the Shared Folders is time consuming. To do this, add "vmhgfs" to PRUNEFS within updatedb's configuration file, typically found in /etc/updatedb.conf" Is this what you were suggesting or something else? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=989708&aid=2298353&group_id=204462 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-devel mailing list open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-devel
