Linux Guest OS: open-vm-tools installed but not running, Restart VMWare Tools Greyed out

I'm trying to figure out if my VMWare tools is running and some of the solutions I found online aren't quite working. If I look at apt list --installed | grep vm I see open-vm-tools-desktop/kali-rolling,now 2:12.0.0-2 amd64 [installed] open-vm-tools/kali-rolling,now 2:12.0.0-2 amd64 [installed,automatic] but if I look at processes running with ps ax | grep vm it doesn't look to be running 198 ? S 0:17 [irq/16-vmwgfx] 231502 ? Sl 0:01 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd -n vmusr --blockFd 3 231523 ? Sl 0:02 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd 237915 ? Ssl 0:04 /usr/bin/vmtoolsd 237989 ? Ssl 0:00 vmware-vmblock-fuse /run/vmblock-fuse -o rw,subtype=vmware-vmblock,default_permissions,allow_other,dev,suid 247062 pts/2 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto vm I've found solutions to restart VM tools with $ sudo /etc/init.d/vmware-tools start $ sudo /etc/init.d/vmware-tools stop $ sudo /etc/init.d/vmware-tools restart but I don't have any of that in my init.d. The weirdest thing is, sometimes copy/paste into and out of the VM work and then seemingly randomly it stops, that's the real root issue here if anyone knows what's ultimately wrong. The "Reinstall VMWare Tools..." is also greyed out on my licensed VMWare Workstation 15.5 Edit: additionally I tried this answer https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/312820 and now I have removed open-vm-tools but sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop fuse is not working, saying I have broken packages: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: fuse3 : Breaks: fuse E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.