Comment #2 on issue 447 by p.raderm...@gmail.com: installation breaks copy/paste feature of vmware-tools http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=447 I have the same problem on a Arch linux guest(linux 3.0, x86_64) using VMware Player 3.1.4 build-385536. My host is Windows 7 64 bits. This problem has been happening for a while so it is not related to a recent version of the linux kernel. Xmonad & xmonad-contrib are 0.9.2-2.1 As I work exclusively inside a guest, this issue forces me to use another tiling manager (awesome). No Copy/paste issues with awesome (the config is about the same) For both, I use the open-vm-tools arch package. I am sure the vm tools are up and working because I can for instance switch to Unity or mount a shared folder. In case this is related to "XMonad.Config.Azerty" here is the link to my xmonad.hs file: https://raw.github.com/PierreR/config/master/xmonad.hs I have not tried with VirtualBox so I cannot tell if this is related to Vmware but it does seem to be xmonad specific. Thanks for your help.