Further symptoms
Starting VMware view on the console reveals:
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::filesystem::filesystem_error'
what(): boost::filesystem::create_directories: Permission denied: "/tmp/user/vmware-thiemo"
Environment
Product: VMware Horizon Client
Version: 2111
Build: 8.4.0 (build-18957622)
Host-OS: Linux 5.10.0-10-amd64
Gtk+-Version: 3.24.24
Glib-Version: 2.66.8
(Temporal) solution (adapt to your actual user)
The linked directory already existed.
sudo ln -s /tmp/vmware-thiemo /tmp/user/vmware-thiemo
