Teamviewer GUI not starting in Slackware 15.0 with slim

0XBF · 03-19-2024, 07:38 AM

Regarding the "5 minute time limit": A websearch brought me to this page: https://community.teamviewer.com/Eng...ed-connections

Some excerpts from that page:

Quote:

As announced earlier, TeamViewer discontinued server support for TeamViewer (Classic) 8-10 on September 15th, 2021.
[...]
In July 2021, TeamViewer starts another measure to make sure all affected devices will get an update to the latest version before the final discontinuation of server support for TeamViewer (Classic) 8-10 on September 15th, 2021.
[...]
This measure includes:

a PopUp notification
and a limitation of sessions to 5 minutes. The 5 minutes give you enough time to perform a remote update to continue using TeamViewer (Classic) without a time limitation with TeamViewer (Classic) 15.

[...]

that the 5-minute limitation will continue until the update to TeamViewer (Classic) 15.

The TeamViewer slackbuild on slackbuilds.org is 15.51.5, which sounds like it should meet that requirement. Have you tried upgrading to that version?

Didier Spaier · 03-19-2024, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by 0XBF

There's 37 packages to build and install to get to gdm last I checked

. You basically have to build the core gnome desktop minus the applications to use gdm, so if you're not after the whole desktop there are better options.

'sddm' is probably the easiest to test and more user friendly, although xdm is simpler overall. Based on what other users have said here it sounds like either should fix your TeamViewer problem. If not we can try to go from there.

You made me curious. I now ship lightdm, which is not bad (using the lightdm-gtk-greeter or the lightdm-slick-greeter) but I liked very much gdm 2.20.11 shipped in Slint-14.2.1, so just for fun I just typed in runlevel 3:

Code:

https://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/sl..._64-1slint.txz
su
installpkg gdm-2.20.11-x86_64-1slint.txz
/usr/sbin/gdm

I was greeted by a nice GUI allowing to change both its language and theme, selected MATE as session, logged in and voilà! I am back in MATE 28.0.

This version was the last one needing so few dependencies and although built on a system based on Slackware 14.2 still works out of the box in a system based on Slackware 15.0. Plus, it came with a complete documentation (see /usr/doc/gdm-2.20.11/gnome-display-mgr.html after installation). The only reason I do not ship it anymore is as it's no more maintained (the source tarball dates back 3 June 2010) there could exist unknown security holes. George Vlahavas who initially wrote for Salix the SLKBUILD I used and adapted do not ship it anymore either for the same reason.

joenew · 03-20-2024, 02:59 AM

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Originally Posted by 0XBF

Regarding the "5 minute time limit":

The TeamViewer slackbuild on slackbuilds.org is 15.51.5, which sounds like it should meet that requirement. Have you tried upgrading to that version?

Thank you for your hint, on my slackware I have TeamViewer up to date (15.x from SBo as you mentioned) but I'm wondering about the remote windows PC... I have to check, but likely it has an older version installed. I'll let you know if that was the issue.

BrunoLafleur · 03-25-2024, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Didier Spaier

You made me curious. I now ship lightdm, which is not bad (using the lightdm-gtk-greeter or the lightdm-slick-greeter) but I liked very much gdm 2.20.11 shipped in Slint-14.2.1, so just for fun I just typed in runlevel 3:

Code:

https://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/sl..._64-1slint.txz
su
installpkg gdm-2.20.11-x86_64-1slint.txz
/usr/sbin/gdm

I was greeted by a nice GUI allowing to change both its language and theme, selected MATE as session, logged in and voilà! I am back in MATE 28.0.

This version was the last one needing so few dependencies and although built on a system based on Slackware 14.2 still works out of the box in a system based on Slackware 15.0. Plus, it came with a complete documentation (see /usr/doc/gdm-2.20.11/gnome-display-mgr.html after installation). The only reason I do not ship it anymore is as it's no more maintained (the source tarball dates back 3 June 2010) there could exist unknown security holes. George Vlahavas who initially wrote for Salix the SLKBUILD I used and adapted do not ship it anymore either for the same reason.

I have made a patch which takes into account the security advices (CVEs) for gdm which applies to GDM 2.20.

I had version 2.20.10. I keep it instead of 2.20.11 because an advertised patch bettween it and 2.20.10 is missing in the official repository. So I reapplied and reworked the patches and addded some others in a single patch.

More recents CVEs dont't apply to gdm 2 because they resolve new bugs non existant in gdm 2.

It is here :
https://github.com/BrunoLafleur/pbsl...builds/sbo/gdm

With it's dependency :
https://github.com/BrunoLafleur/pbsl...libgnomecanvas

It works in Slackware 15.