vmware userland helper for X
Project homepage: https://github.com/jcs/vmwh/
Description
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.
Package information
- Ports path
- sysutils/vmwh
- Package architecture
- amd64
- Maintainer
- joshua stein <jcs@jcs.org>
- Categories
- sysutils, x11
- Available flavors
- None listed
- Only for architectures
- amd64, i386
Ports list build and test dependencies as well as runtime dependencies. pkg_add selects those needed for installation.
Direct dependencies
Runtime
OpenBSD README
This README contains unresolved ports variables; replace them before using its commands.
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| Running vmwh 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