Drag & Drop not working on Ubuntu and Kali

[JSacras]

Hello all,

I'm on a MacBook Pro M2 using VMWare Fusion Professional Version 13.6.3.

I was trying to move some files from my MAC to my Linux VM and noticed it doesn't work.

As you can see, if I drag a file from my Mac to the Ubuntu OS, it seems to recognize something is about to me moved there because a little icon appears behind the folder icon, but as soon as I drop it, it just do an animation coming back to Mac OS. If I try to drag something from Ubuntu to the Mac OS, it won't even let me grab it outside of the Ubuntu screen.

The exact same thing happens with Kali Linux.

However copy/past is working and I can just copy/paste a file to the guest system.

Both VMs have VMware Tools installed and both have "Enable Drag and Drop" and "Enable Copy and Paste" checked.

With Windows 11 everything works fine, both copy/paste and Drag and Drop.

What can be causing this?

[Technogeezer]

For Ubuntu, If you’re running Wayland in a Linux guest (which is the default on recent Ubuntu, Fedora releases), drag/drop doesn’t work properly. It requires X11. This problem is not exclusive to Fusion on M-series Macs.

Try disabling Wayland and running Xorg if you need drag/drop. The instructions to do that will vary depending on the desktop environment you’re using - search the web for guidance.

For Kali, what desktop environment are you using? If it’s GNOME it may have the same issue as Ubuntu. If it’s Xfce, I’m seeing the same behavior on Drag/drop, VMware is putting the file in a temp folder in the VM, but the desktop environment doesn’t seem to be picking it up. Not sure if that’s a desktop environment problem (which would need a bug report filed) or a VMware problem. My feeling is that it’s the former.