[Update: 13.1.3026] Spring Update

Dear Linux community,

last week we have released the spring update for TeamViewer Host (13.1.1548), leveraging under-the-hood improvements of the TeamViewer 13.1 code base. In addition, the Host now notifies the user about Wayland limitations in the same way as the full version. It also informs the user when started to run in the background and no tray icon is available. Separate SUSE packages are available, too.

Benefiting from the same code base improvements, today we are releasing the full TeamViewer 13.1 client for Linux.
As indicated in the previous announcement, this release is mostly about stabilizing. But still, a bunch of useful additions snuck in.

Computers & Contacts
The C&C window is now restored at its previous position. Groups can now be collapsed. And, most notably, service cases in the service queue now show up in the list.

Remote Control
The toolbar has a new look and learned to start a file transfer within a running remote control session. You can now also change the resolution of the remote screen. We expect to have most of the missing items ready for the next release.

TAR and SUSE Packages
The TAR package learned to check for QtQuickControls when running tv-setup checklibs. This should resolve the confusing situation that checklibs did not find missing (shared library) dependencies but TeamViewer still did not start.
Much to our dismay, it is not possible to express RPM dependencies in a way that can be satisfied on both, RedHat and SUSE based distros. Again, QtQuickControls.
Therefore, SUSE packages are now available as a separate download which also makes the repository work.

SUSE package migration

Note: If you have previously tinkered your way to make the RPM package or repository work on SUSE, we strongly recommend to remove it and replace it with the new SUSE package. While the binaries are completely identical, the dedicated package should enable smooth updates in the future.

Note: Removing the package also removes an existing account assignment. Therefore, after installing the new package, you might want to assign in again.

What's more
As some desktop environments do not support status notification icons (a.k.a. tray icons), we added a notification to let the user know that TeamViewer runs in the background (if the start-with-system option is enabled) and no icon could be created. If you start TeamViewer manually, it should always become visible.

On DEB systems, the teamviewer repo list command now lists available packages.

Linux specific documentation has been greatly revised, reworked and extended. Please have a look:

Linux Knowledge Base

Further Reading

State of Wayland & TeamViewer
Previous announcements: Beta, Final, Christmas, Valentine

As always, packages are available via repositories and on the TeamViewer Linux download page.

All the best,
Daniel

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cowst

Hi, I did not use my mobile (Android) device) for a while, but today (and yesterday I updated my Linux host) I get from the phone a license not matching the host.

They are both 13.1 (no further updates visible).

Any idea?

Thanks

MalteGerth

Thank you @DanielStm, but gaining Administrator privileges is not possible, as the password dialog is not be visible in TeamViewer, if you only connect with TeamViewer authentification.

The Windows Client still has the feature to use the Windows Authentification Mechanism connection to a Windows host.

DanielStm

@richardfoleher: Yes. Press Ctrl+F, "host" to jump there.

@exactt, @JM325, @FlorianATM, @M4CC4: Thanks, I apreciate it :robotvery-happy:
Actually, market share is way below 10 percent. 1%...2% is realistic. Higher numbers usually include ChromeOS. But world dominance is only 35 years away. :robotwink:

Ctrl+C (or Ctrl+[CVXYZ]) should work just as well as using the context menu. It would be helpful if you could try to isolate in which cases it doesn't. (e.g. a certain desktop environment, OS, working again after a reboot...) You can use the Help/Feedback form to send a detailed report and possibly attach log files.

@MalteGerth: I think you still can do most things, as you can gain Administrator privileges after connecting as well. Of course I understand that you miss it. It's scheduled for the next update.

@CSylvain: That is by design. You are expected to remove teamviewer in order to install teamviewer-suse. Unfortunately, yes, removing the package also removes the assignment. I added that in the article. Thanks for the pointer. :robothappy:

Best regards,
Daniel

M4CC4

Daniel, like most of the posts on here so far...thanks to you and the team for this update... I am now more confident in my choice to upgrade my multi OS environment up to 13 now that linux is usable...Great job so far, please keep going.

CSylvain

had to remove teamviewer_13.0.9865.x86_64 at remote system
in order to install teamviewer-suse_13.1.3026.x86_64
otherwise package manager would report a conflict.

after that, had to (re)assign remote system to my account again to complete the upgrade

FlorianATM

Many Thank for upgrading the linux client, it deserve it, and it's really appreciated to see TeamViewer company provide native application on OS that represent less than x% users (hope 10% but I guess it's lesser).

As many users, I really missing feature available on version 12 like
- revert screen control
- Meeting session

But i'm sure it will come soon, now the code is cleaned, and ready to receive features, at least the same as was available on other platform for the same client version

CSylvain

<double post>

CSylvain

@JM325 you sure you don't mean ctrl+shift+c and ctrl+shift+v for copy and paste, respectively?

CSylvain

attempted to install moments ago. package complains it conflicts with itself :-P

sudo rpm -Uhv teamviewer-suse_13.1.3026.x86_64.rpm
warning: teamviewer-suse_13.1.3026.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 RSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 0c1289c0: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
teamviewer conflicts with teamviewer-suse-13.1.3026-0.x86_64

currently have teamviewer-13.0.9865-0.x86_64 installed

MalteGerth

Windows Authentication is not possible with version 13 anymore. This makes it impossible to use TeamViewer for administrative work on Windows hosts.

JM325

TeamViewer on Linux has come a really long way since the switch to native support and I think you guys deserve a ton of credit. I've been checking as new versions come out and the current state of it (bordering at least for me on 100% feature-complete) is super impressive, especially relative to the first release.

I do however want to mention one issue that, while small, has kept me from actually upgrading from 12 to 13. Are there plans to add keyboard shortcut support to the Linux version? It might be minor to a lot of people, but I rely heavily on ctrl+C/X/V in particular, to the extent that having to handle everything with right click context menus (often after replacing all the text I've highlighted with a 'c') currently has me downgrading. It's pretty much the only thing I care about that still seems to be missing.

exactt

Thx. First impression ist great. Some daily annoyances gone. That is awesome!

richardfoleher

Any news on a new Linux Host?