Wayland Support

WalterTamboer

Hi,

Will Teamviewer support Wayland? And if so, when will this version of Teamviewer be released?

Thanks

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JeanK

Hello dear Community friends,

I have quite some news for you...

We started working on supporting Wayland! 🚀

Please find more information in our Blogpost here:

https://community.teamviewer.com/English/discussion/122410/teamviewer-support-on-wayland-experimental-state-%F0%9F%A7%AA

I hope you will be able to try it out.

We would appreciate any feedback! 🙏

All the best,

/JeanK

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Spurlos

Now when Ubuntu 17.10 is out, its main display server is Wayland. Due to being the mainstream distro for linux\gnu we would require a Wayland compatible Teamviewer app. In 6 months there would be an LTS release which would adopt Wayland for the next few years at least.

Could we get at least and ETA\status update on work being done on Wayland support? If its possible currently, or Wayland security model is too comlpex to adapt Teamviewer for it? Because many articles over the net state that alot of things that X.org allowed, wont be possible with Wayland in current model. Curious if we as Teamviewer users on Ubuntu should wait for proper support of new technology stack, or go an search for an alternative for remote desktop app.

Thanks!

fansari

My first try of TeamViewer ended up with "black screen" on client side (Chromebook in my case).

Server side is Fedora 25 and as you can guess the reason for the "black screen" is not on Chromebook side but due to the fact that Fedora 25 uses Wayland by default (unless confiugred differently).

As I found out today: when I use X it works.

So yes - please develop a Linux native version with Wayland support!

DigitalSpinner

maggiv8

Same here. Just installed Ubuntu 17.10 and teamviewer doesn't work anymore on wayland, but it works on x.org. It doesn't work at all with the *.deb file on wayland and with the *.tar.gz file it ends up in a black screen. Any wayland support would be highly appreciated.

ringe

Hi,

I had TeamViewer 12 install when I upgraded to Ubuntu 17.10 with Wayland.

No issues with TeamViewer whatsoever. It has continued being an essential tool.
I support all kinds of people and systems with it.

Then I upgraded to TeamViewer 13 BETA and it simply says it cannot open in Wayland.

What is the point? If TeamViewer 12 works under Wayland, why can't 13?

Ubuntu 17.10 runs X applications under Wayland with no problems at all.

Please fix the BETA so I can continue using TeamViewer.

Best Regards
Runar

rompe

Any progress here? Would have been nice if TeamViewer had been ready for Wayland when Ditributions started defaulting to Wayland. Since this opportunity has clearly been missed, is there any chance TeamViewer will at least someday work again on modern Linux Desktops? Xorg will not always be there, and even now I doubt all people will fall back to Xorg just for TeamViewer.

Gianmar

Is there any new about wayland support....

ChristianCay

Dear WalterTamboer,

Thank you for your post.

At the moment, our developers are working on a Linux Native version for Linux but there's no release date or information about features included.

I will forward your suggestion to support Wayland our product management team.

Such ideas are always welcome, although we can not promise when or if this Feature will be implemented.

Decisions for new features are mainly based on customer's suggestions.

Nevertheless, your feedback is crucial to us, as we want to continue to develop TeamViewer-based on our user's need.

Any other questions don't hesitate to ask.

Best regards,

Christian

Khaliiq

Still waiting for that support

Moham

Teamviewer 13 .... the new must have tool , it rocks on windows platform, there is no match

but when it comes to wayland support well the things get bad..... wayland is the default main display server and it will be the default for all the major linux distros.... simple no way to work tv ... switching to xorg for now... well no so good workaround...... can you please speed up the development for this major issue and support wayland...

Thanks

DigitalSpinner

Hi Thank you! Just installed the current preview and somehow is getting usable again (I'm on Ubuntu 17.10 with Wayland disabled) - I can both view/control and act as a server for my home linux desktop again (despite no integration with TV account, which obviously is work in progress I suppose..).

Once again thank you, keep up good work, TV is excellent.

targettor

Running Teamviewer 15.4.4445 on Fedora 31.

Teamviewer hanging, crashing sometimes a connection possible, but most of the time not.

Until one figures out that Teamviewer does not run with Wayland.

It turns out that nowadays, the only reason for disabling Wayland is Teamviewer.

On Fedora 32 (beta) it's even worse. The Teamviewer application doesn't even work properly, the application is hanging. If it receives a remote connection, it just crashes straight away.

Teamviewer Support: Please add Wayland support. Otherwise most modern Linux users won't be able to use the software.

Nikkoid

Ubuntu 0.18.10 : Teamviewer does the same error: Teamviewer not running on target computer.

Yes it doesm and xrdp is working and port 5938, 80 and 443 are open, so what your team is doing?

Just install Ubuntu + mate and see by yourself.

DanielStm

@WalterTamboer, @fansari, @Spurlos, @DigitalSpinner, @maggiv8, @rompe
Please read about the current state of Wayland in the TV13 announcement.
In short: GUI starts, outgoing connections possible.
Also note that we will release an update next week adding important features.

@ringe, you installed teamviewer-host, not teamviewer. Please read the announcement above, then try with the teamviewer package.

ZekeMX

Hello

Now that Kooha and OBS Studio work well on Wayland I hope to see Teamviewer also working with Wayland. We are very fortunate that both applications are Opensource so that Teamviewer Linux Developers can see their code and find a way tor Teamviewer to work with Wayland.

Regards

DanielStm

Along with our new release, I also posted a dedicated explanation on the state of Wayland:
[Update: 13.0.6634] Christmas Update
State of Wayland & TeamViewer

All the best,
Daniel

Tim42

We pray for that..... wayland situation and the teamviewer support for that is really something that makes our situation dificult, but we all have to acknowledge that tv stuff works hard to keep up and fix this issue, i know its hard to pay big bugs for the subscription and to expect to work flawlessly as it must be, but we all have to wait litle more i guess and lets hope the issues will be resolved soon.

Thanks

Timothy

ringe

The problem is upstream in Wayland, as far as I have understood.

I wish TeamViewer would show how great they are and just put money on the table to get the upstream fixed. Just hire Red Hat to take on the task, or Canonical.

xdabire

it's actually supported within the last version

JeanK

Hello dear Community friends,

I have quite some news for you...

We started working on supporting Wayland! 🚀

Please find more information in our Blogpost here:

https://community.teamviewer.com/English/discussion/122410/teamviewer-support-on-wayland-experimental-state-%F0%9F%A7%AA

I hope you will be able to try it out.

We would appreciate any feedback! 🙏

All the best,

/JeanK

gwdteamviewernom

My Client to connect Fedora (KDE Wayland) could not success for Teamviewer 15.37.3

In TeamViewer15_Logfile.log show:

========================================================

2023/01/05 18:50:17.469 3925 140320228787648 D Logger started.

2023/01/05 18:50:17.469 3925 140320228787648 D Found 0 stack dump files ...

2023/01/05 18:50:17.469 3925 140320228787648 D Found 0 core dump files ...

2023/01/05 18:50:17.470 3925 140320228787648 D systemd: logind service available

2023/01/05 18:50:17.471 3925 140320228787648 D systemd: New seat seat0 [path=/org/freedesktop/login1/seat/seat0, activeSession='2', canGraphical=1, canTTY=1, canMultiSession=0]

2023/01/05 18:50:17.471 3925 140320228787648 D LogindSessionInfo: New session LogindSessionInfo [id=2 user=gwd state=user active=1 reliable=1 infoId=450215437] [path=/org/freedesktop/login1/session/_32 TTY=tty1 seat=seat0 display= vtnr=1 owner=[SysUser: gwd [uid=1000, gid=1000 home=/home/gwd gecos=gwd shell=/bin/bash]] idle=0(0) active=1 type=wayland class=user state=active timestamp=1672915633818854 service=sddm defaultCG= leader=1446 audit=2 remote=0 rHost= rUser= killProc=0]

2023/01/05 18:50:17.475 3925 140320228787648 D SysSessionInfoManager: observing sessions from logind is marked as reliable

2023/01/05 18:50:17.476 3925 140320228787648 D SysSessionInfoManager: Session Information provided by VT [priority: 2]

2023/01/05 18:50:17.476 3925 140320228787648 D! FrameBuffer: Cannot access /dev/fb0, frame buffer support unavailable

2023/01/05 18:50:17.476 3925 140320228787648 D SysSessionInfoManager::SessionAdded: adding session WaylandSession: [SysSession 450215437 [type=87 vt=1 tty= pseudotty=0 info=1 id=2 user=gwd state=user active=1 reliable=1]]

2023/01/05 18:50:17.476 3925 140320228787648 D!! SysSessionInfoManager::GetOwnProcessSession: No session found!, Errorcode=11

2023/01/05 18:50:19.482 3925 140320228787648 D Cannot acquire lock for "/run/user/1000/tv_desktop.lock", reason: locked by other process (3070)

2023/01/05 18:50:24.487 3925 140320228787648 D Shutting down DBus IOHandler

========================================================

startup.log show:

========================================================

Init...

TeamViewer: 15.37.3 - RPM

Profile: /home/gwd (gwd)

Desktop: DS: 'plasma' XDG: 'KDE'

XServer TTY: none

ok (info)

CheckCPU: SSE2 support: yes

ok (profile)

========================================================

It would 100% occur in Fedora Labs (Scientific).

kode54

I only have one problem with TeamViewer on Wayland Gnome now. Now, whenever the remote end disconnects from my session, the TeamViewer app locks up with the disconnect notice on screen, and the TeamViewer process hangs trying to ptrace what appears to be a defunct TeamViewer process.

dennis_tgc

Hi,

Thank you for supporting Linux and an active development branch.

I just had an issue with connectiing _to_ kubuntu 22.0.4.1 with wayland activated. With X11 there was no issue. Issues experienced:

no keyboard
clicking start worked, but further to the right the actual mouse cursor was not my actual mouse cursor. when clicking pinned items, I was actually clicking on the next pinned item. In the system tray nothing was clickable and resulted in minimizing all windows (the button which is on the far right on a default kubuntu panel).
no remote cursor after activating remote cursor
lots of black screens, had to connect multiple times before getting a connection
a popup screen of 1-5seconds which said remote control was disabled (which is want).

I tested _from_ kubuntu 22.10 with wayland and X11 as client AND from Windows 10 with the same results. On kubuntu with the latest stable and preview version (15.35.7), on Windows with the last available version from the website (on 10 nov 2022)

Only after switching the target system to X11, the issue was resolved.