i3 in vmware doesn't share clipboard with host windows-machine

My main os is Windows, I then run ubuntu in VmWare. Before switching to i3 on gnome, I used Ubuntu gnome. In Ubuntu, I could share the clipboard between the windows-host and the ubuntu-virtual machine without any issues. However, after changing to the tiling window manager i3 in my ubuntu-virtual machine, I suddenly wasn't able to share the clipboard between the host system and the virtual machine. (As a side note, the hotkey for copy-pasting also changed after changing to i3, now it is e.g. ctrl+shift+c for copying.)

My question is: How do I share the system clipboard between my ubuntu virtual machine using i3 (VmWare), and my host windows machine?

EDIT:

Just stumpled upon this question and answer pair (though it's from 2013), quite similar to my question with the exception being he asks about i3 on arch, whereas I ask about i3 on ubuntu. I haven't tried 'autocutsel' out as the answer suggests yet, do you think it'll work?

I followed this article, it's content is short, so I just copied it:

First, make sure you have VMware tools installed.

sudo service vmware-tools status

If it’s not installed, then first make sure you don’t have the open-vm-tools installed.

sudo service open-vm-tools status

If you do have it installed, uninstall it.

sudo apt-get remove open-vm-tools
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove open-vm-tools
sudo apt-get purge open-vm-tools
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove open-vm-tools
sudo reboot

Then, after your computer reboots, you can install the VMware tools. If you didn't have open-vm-tools, you can skip to this step.

Click on Virtual Machine > Install / Update / Reinstall VMware Tools. Extract the VMware Tools tar to the Desktop and follow the below commands.

cd Desktop/vmware-tools-distrib
Run this command to install VMware Tools:
sudo ./vmware-install.pl
Follow the prompts to install. I picked the defaults.

Reboot your computer and copy/paste should work with the default window manager.

Since I already had vmware-tools installed, all I had to do was:

If you use i3 as a window manager, go to the i3 config at ~/.config/i3/config and add the following line at the end. (This assumes you already had an i3 configuration file created).

exec --no-startup-id vmware-user

Log out and log back in.