VMware drag and drop not working

[Rafael Tonani]

I'm running a windows 10 VM on a ubuntu host, and i kinda realized, when i use the drag and drop to drag a file from the host to the VM, it works correctly, but when i try dragging a file from the VM to the host, it creates the temporary folder with the file(/home/glitch/.cache/vmware/drag-and-drop/[random number]/[file]) but it doesn't copy the correct path, it only copies the path starting from the folder containing the file, not the paths before it, so when i try to paste it, it just gives an error, forcing me to go to the directory and drag the file to where i wanted it to be. Any help on how to fix this?

Note: i have tried X11 AND Wayland, and none have worked

[Technogeezer]

You don't indicate what version of Ubuntu you're running, but recent versions have defaulted to using Wayland in the desktop environment.  For Linux guest operating systems, drag/drop doesn't work with Wayland -- you need to be running X11/xorg instead of Wayland in the guest for it to work.

I've just done some testing with a Windows guest VM and a Fedora host (also running Wayland), I'm seeing the same thing. I suspect that the drag/drop problem is due to Wayland. If you have xorg packages installed and disable Wayland in the host, does drag/drop work?

I hope Broadcom can put some work into making drag/drop work with Wayland. Many major distros have already made Wayland their defaults, and the trends show no signs of stopping the move away from X11.