im running kubuntu 23 and have installed open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop and things work fine for the most part however the copy/paste feature isnt working. after a lot of digging i found that if i run vmtoolsd -n vmusr that the copy/paste functionality works.
from the service logs it seems like everything is starting/running fine but for some reason this wont work unless i manually run it. It seems like im missing some configuration to tell it to auto run, but i've been unable to figure it out.
in the /etc/vmware-tools/tools.conf i have
isolation.tools.copy.disable = "FALSE"
isolation.tools.paste.disable = "FALSE"
which was there by default and from what i can tell says to enable that feature, and i assume should start the service.
I saw some suggestions to add the following, but that had no impact
[guestinfo]
procs.guestMode = "FALSE"
[vmtoolsd]
username = jrich523
most of the recommendations were to reinstall/reboot or something basic like that, which i've tried many times with no luck.
any idea what i might be missing?