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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

@Tids: actually, there are - me, for instance. I enable the service selectively when I need TV to remotely administer my parents PC. At all other times, I do not want that daemon to be running in the background.

@swiftgeek could you just run

systemctl enable --now teamviewerd.service

from the install script? Because why not enable it, so we can use it right away? I dont think there are many users who install TV and then dont use it, but many who are a bit upset that the service isnt running after installation.

@Pietro_Pizzi I noticed this too. The individual computer settings via GUI are no longer there (where you could change the default resolution, window size, etc. per computer). However, changing these options when connected to a remote computer via the pull down menu seem to stick when logging back in. I'm not sure if those settings are just handled differently in 13 or maybe they haven't been added back in on TV13 Linux yet.

I have upgraded from v12. I'm on KDE/Plasma/SDDM and I'm logged in.

Q: Is it normal that now I can't edit any settings for my stored connections with in the GUI? The only features v13 has right now is "connect to an already saved machine" and "open the management console online" (where you can edit the connections).

TV13 works only with lightdm, in sddm it works "partially". Now I need to figure out how to undo the hell in TV12 with downgrading and installing lib32-freetype2 and lib32-dbus

Please, remove the 32 bit dependencies, it works just fine without them.

Problem for me is that as soon as I connect with my client, my servers user will log out of GNOME. And then teamviewer server will go offline.

Any ideas?

This is because the current PKGBUILD declares them in the dependencies section - when I installed teamviewer, I modified PKGBUILD and deleted all lib32- entries from there.

When I attempt to remove the multilib repo per the Arch Wiki I keep getting errors when executing the "pacman -R $(paclist multilib | cut -f1 -d' ')" command stating that Teamviewer still requires all these packages, which is where my original confusion came from.