Unable to remote connect show Open URL:teamviewer8 Protocol ?

I am experienceing this issue as well.

Hi did anyone manage to work this out? I'm trying to help my mother (she has Alzheimer's and asking for codes/passwords etc is getting increasingly difficult). I setup unattended access to her Windows 10 pc but when I click the connect button in the screenshot above I just get an error message saying the teamviewer8 protocol is not recognised;

I've tried creating a .desktop file;

[Desktop Entry]

Encoding=UTF-8

Version=1.0

Type=Application

Terminal=false

Exec=/usr/bin/teamviewer %u

Name=Teamviewer

#Icon=/usr/bin/teamviewer

Categories=Internet;

MimeType=x-scheme-handler/teamviewer8;

and associating it through xdg-mime with

chmod +x ~/.local/share/applications/teamviewer.desktop

xdg-mime default teamviewer.desktop x-scheme-handler/teamviewer8;

and it does launch teamviewer but the %u isn't right, anyone any ideas what this should look like?

The BlackSheep

yes that works but that's not the problem - in that instance I'd need my aged mother to launch teamviewer at her end and tell me the password and as I said before that's getting increasingly difficult.

The error dialog that appears doesn't allow you to copy the full url so I can't even try launching it manually - I'd copy a blurred screenshot but I just get an error 403 on this forum trying to add an image.

The problem appears to be how you launch the client with the url that's passed from this screen - this must just be a registration of the protocol "teamviewer8://remotecontrol=...username=..." but how/where is the issue.

I'm using the latest Ubuntu Studio which is hardly a weird Linux flavour.

TheBlackSheep