I have an issue with Teamviewer 8. While I've found that Teamviewer 7 installs and runs just fine, my partner machine runs version 8.
The thing is, I have to start Teamviewer service and then Teamviewer8 from Konsole as root, otherwise it just doesn't work at all. I don't understand why this is a good idea. I'm just a Windows guy trying to make some version of Linux get my BCM4318 wireless card, network shares, and remote desktop working all at the same time. So far, PCLinuxOS is winning the battle.
I've installed Teamviewer 8 from both the repository and from an rpm file listed somewhere in this thread. I uninstalled the repository version and installed the rpm version from Konsole as root {rpm -ivh teamviewer_linux.rpm} and it runs, again, only as root from Konsole. Just sounds so anti-Linux to me.
Starting Teamviewer 8 from the menu gives me a twirling icon on the taskbar and then nothing.
Starting Teamviewer 8 from (non-root) Konsole gives me this:
[charlie@localhost ~]$ teamviewer8
Init...
Checking setup...
Launching TeamViewer...
fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly
L"Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" (6.0.0.0)
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:ole:CoInitializeSecurity ((nil),-1,(nil),(nil),0,3,(nil),0,(nil)) - stub!
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:process:SetProcessShutdownParameters (00000100, 00000000): partial stub.
fixme:resource:GetGuiResources (0xffffffff,0): stub
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x32dc60,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW (L"\\\\.\\DISPLAY1",0,0x32d918,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),1,0x32dc60,0x00000000), stub!
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And now I'd like to eat my post. I shut down the machine and edited /etc/rc.d/rc.local with "teamviewer --daemon start". I assume that means the service starts on boot. Now, a simple "teamviewer8" from Konsole, non-root, works.
What is up with that? Is it just the way of Linux?
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A new day, wake up from hibernate - no wi-fi connection. Reboot, same thing. I know this is off topic but I am just so tired of this :-) Google may be my friend but Linux surely is not.
