[ open-vm-tools-Tracker-2298353 ] vmware-user does not autostart

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Tracker item #2298353, was opened at 2008-11-16 13:46
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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.


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