Restart Vmware Tools

Restart Vmware Tools

Sometimes my Ubuntu virtual machine looses copy/paste from windows host functionality. I'm too lazy restart whole machine. How to restart just vmware tools?

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This worked for me when the resolution of my Ubuntu 18.10 VM wasn't updating automatically:

sudo systemctl restart open-vm-tools

I'm using open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-desktop 2:10.3.0-0ubuntu3.

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