Tested on: Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca (Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS) with TeamViewer 10.0.46203
TeamViewer is great! But it keeps a daemon running in background, which may not be very desirable for occasional users. The daemon can be disabled by running:
After disabling daemon, TeamViewer shows following error message when started, which is expected. However, the daemon fails to start when the command is executed:
After looking into some more details, following command can be used to start the daemon (open TeamViewer as usual after this and Ctrl-C to kill the daemon):
For reference, initial content of /etc/init/teamviewerd.conf can be found in /opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/script/teamviewerd.DEB.conf, which can also be modified and copied to correct location. Also see this Github discussion and this blog post for more details.
TeamViewer is great! But it keeps a daemon running in background, which may not be very desirable for occasional users. The daemon can be disabled by running:
$ teamviewer daemon disable
tee: /opt/teamviewer/logfiles/install_teamviewerd.log: Permission denied
Fri Sep 11 14:12:42 PDT 2015
Action: Removing ...
initctl stop teamviewerd
initctl: Unknown instance:
fail
rm: cannot remove ‘/etc/init/teamviewerd.conf’: Permission denied
initctl: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.113" (uid=1000 pid=22111 comm="initctl reload-configuration ") interface="com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6" member="ReloadConfiguration" error name="(unset)" requested_reply="0" destination="com.ubuntu.Upstart" (uid=0 pid=1 comm="/sbin/init")
OK, using sudo seems to do the trick:
$ sudo teamviewer daemon disable
Fri Sep 11 14:14:55 PDT 2015
Action: Removing ...
initctl stop teamviewerd
initctl: Unknown instance:
fail
wine: /home/username/.config/teamviewer10 is not owned by you
After disabling daemon, TeamViewer shows following error message when started, which is expected. However, the daemon fails to start when the command is executed:
$ sudo teamviewer daemon start
initctl start teamviewerd
initctl: Unknown job: teamviewerd
fail
$ sudo teamviewer --daemon start
initctl start teamviewerd
initctl: Unknown job: teamviewerd
fail
initctl is not aware of teamviewerd, probably because /etc/init/teamviewerd.conf was deleted during the daemon disable command (see above). Reinstalling teamviewer makes it work, but that's not the best solution.
After looking into some more details, following command can be used to start the daemon (open TeamViewer as usual after this and Ctrl-C to kill the daemon):
$ sudo /opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/teamviewerd -f
For reference, initial content of /etc/init/teamviewerd.conf can be found in /opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/script/teamviewerd.DEB.conf, which can also be modified and copied to correct location. Also see this Github discussion and this blog post for more details.