Shared Clipboard doesn't work

[Web67]

Hi,

I run an Ubuntu with a minimal gui (xorg and openbox) as a guest on a Windows 7 host, and I'd
like to copy/past in both direction host <--> guest, but it doesn't work.
I've installed the Guest Addition:

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$ sudo apt-get install -y dkms build-essential linux-headers-generic

$ sudo /media/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

then, in Virtualbox, I've set the Shared Clipboard option to bidirectional.

But, when I attempt to copy/paste some text from Ubuntu/Gvim to Windows/Notepad (or the opposite), it doesn't
work.

Can someone help me ?

Virtualbox version: 4.3.0


Thanks

[Web67]

Ok, I found the answer.

It turned out that the VBoxClient service was not launched at the openbox start.
So I've just edited the /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart file and added the following line:

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VBoxClient --clipboard

Now it does work.

Hope it helps

[lpstart]

I'm a green hand,and my English is not very good.Please forgive me,if there is offend you.

My guest os is centos 6.4 ,and i coudn't find "dkms build-essential linux-headers-generic".

please give me some solutions in your convenient time.