vmwh

vmware userland helper for X

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  1. Package version
    vmwh-1.2v0
  2. Maintainer
    joshua stein

vmwh is a vmware helper for X11, developed on OpenBSD to run in userland
alongside the vmt(4) vmware kernel driver and the vmmouse Xorg driver.
It detects when the mouse cursor switches back to the host ("ungrabs")
and sends the guest's X11 clipboard data (read from xclip) to the host
through the vmware backdoor, which gets put onto the host's clipboard.
It then detects when the mouse cursor switches back to the guest
("grabs") and replaces the X11 clipboard contents (via xclip) with the
host's, which is read through the vmware backdoor.

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| Running ${PKGSTEM} on OpenBSD
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In order to use vmwh add the following line to ~/.xinitrc or
~/.xsession before the window manager:

${TRUEPREFIX}/bin/vmwh &

To enable copy and paste from/to xterm(1) add the following line
to ~/.Xdefaults:

XTerm*selectToClipboard:true

  • x11/xclip