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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="ts_linux-guest-x11-services">
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| 4 | <title>Shared Clipboard, Auto-Resizing, and Seamless Desktop in X11 Guests</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>
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| 8 | Guest desktop services in guests running the X11 window system
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| 9 | such as Oracle Solaris and Linux, are provided by a guest
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| 10 | service called <userinput>VBoxClient</userinput>, which runs under
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| 11 | the ID of the user who started the desktop session and is
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| 12 | automatically started using the following command lines when
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| 13 | your X11 user session is started if you are using a common
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| 14 | desktop environment such as Gnome or KDE.
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| 15 | </p>
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| 16 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ VBoxClient --clipboard
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| 17 | $ VBoxClient --display
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| 18 | $ VBoxClient --seamless</pre>
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| 19 | <p>
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| 20 | If a particular desktop service is not working correctly, it is
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| 21 | worth checking whether the process which should provide it is
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| 22 | running.
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| 23 | </p>
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| 24 | <p>
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| 25 | The <userinput>VBoxClient</userinput> processes create files in the
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| 26 | user's home directory with names of the form
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| 27 | <filepath>.vboxclient-*.pid</filepath> when they are running in
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| 28 | order to prevent a given service from being started twice. It
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| 29 | can happen due to misconfiguration that these files are created
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| 30 | owned by root and not deleted when the services are stopped,
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| 31 | which will prevent them from being started in future sessions.
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| 32 | If the services cannot be started, you may wish to check whether
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| 33 | these files still exist.
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| 34 | </p>
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| 35 | </body>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | </topic>
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