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As mentioned in @seyn6gk's comment

Without changing anything, since teamviewer 13 a desktop environment/login with display manager like lightdm/sddm/gdm is required.

startx users can follow workaround mentioned in @r7v s comment

Workaround for startx

Create drop-in /etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/getty@tty1.service-drop-in.conf with

[Service]
Environment=XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11

Source: https://community.teamviewer.com/English/discussion/95696/teamviewer-15-stopped-working-on-debian-buster#M4399

I installed it via paru (use your favorite helper or compile with makepkg), then I did this procedure and it worked (I use Wayland):

cp -av "/opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/desktop/com.teamviewer.TeamViewer.desktop" "$HOME/.local/share/applications/"
sed -i 's/Exec=/Exec=env QT_QPA_PLATFORM="" /' "$HOME/.local/share/applications/com.teamviewer.TeamViewer.desktop"
sudo systemctl start teamviewerd
sudo systemctl enable teamviewerd
systemctl status teamviewerd

• Source: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/teamviewer#comment-937934

What am I doing wrong with this every dang time I try to use it. teamviewerd daemon is running but 'teamviewer' only show this and nothing happens.

Init...
CheckCPU: SSE2 support: yes
Checking setup...
Launching TeamViewer ...
Launching TeamViewer GUI ...

also checked that no process of 'teamviewer' exist, only teamviewerd. Tried this about a year ago and same thing so it gotta be me!!

Also tried @r7v trick-fix but nothing.

(again...uninstalled it)

Trying to connect to my host Wayland KDE desktop with the web Teamviewer on Firefox the process Teamviewer_Desktop on the host system just immediately segfaults while the GUI remains working. Are there any workarounds or am I missing something? Edit: Nvm, forgot to reboot my host pc after installing, now it works flawlessly.

Careful, the latest update broke my system. I solved it by booting from a live usb, chrooting into my system and installing dbus-daemon-units. Then you can remove this package and reinstall dbus-broker-units.

Teamviewer service no longer starts and will tell you that the TeamViewer Daemon is not running.

teamviewerd.service - TeamViewer remote control daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/teamviewerd.service; enabled; preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2023-11-25 11:53:35 AEST; 11h ago
   Main PID: 1451 (teamviewerd)
      Tasks: 29 (limit: 38398)
     Memory: 19.7M
        CPU: 17.644s
     CGroup: /system.slice/teamviewerd.service
             └─1451 /opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/teamviewerd -d

Nov 25 11:53:35 Corey-PC systemd[1]: Starting TeamViewer remote control daemon...
Nov 25 11:53:35 Corey-PC systemd[1]: teamviewerd.service: Can't open PID file /run/teamviewerd.pid (yet?) after start: No such file or directory
Nov 25 11:53:35 Corey-PC systemd[1]: Started TeamViewer remote control daemon.
Nov 25 11:55:20 Corey-PC systemd[1]: /usr/lib/systemd/system/teamviewerd.service:9: PIDFile= references a path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/teamviewerd.pid → /run/teamviewerd.pid; please update the unit file accordingly.

For those on wayland with a core dump on GUI launch, try launching with setting QT_QPA_PLATFORM="" before starting. Worked for me.

From here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/teamviewer13#comment-827962

The original comment suggested, updating the PKGBUILD to include a sed that would automate this. Would that be an option?

As mentioned in @seyn6gk's comment

Without changing anything, since teamviewer 13 a desktop environment/login with display manager like lightdm/sddm/gdm is required.

startx users can follow workaround mentioned in @r7v s comment

The pinned comment https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/teamviewer?O=0#comment-640953 is outdated!

Someone please unpin it and pin this comment instead: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/teamviewer?O=10#comment-868456

This fix makes it work without a graphical session manager (i.e. using only startx / xinitrc).

@gloomy that file is from upstream, and it's still compatible. Feel free to report at https://community.teamviewer.com/English/categories/linux

Minor issue but this package causes recurring warnings in the logs:

/usr/lib/systemd/system/teamviewerd.service:9: PIDFile= references a path below legacy directory /var/run/, updating /var/run/teamviewerd.pid → /run/teamviewerd.pid; please update the unit file accordingly.

Maintainer can easily fix this by replacing PIDFile = /var/run/teamviewerd.pid with PIDFile = /run/teamviewerd.pid in the service file.