![]() Icon=/home/username/.local/share/applications/teamviewerqs/tv_bin/desktop/teamviewer_48.png Maybe it's a way for them to more closely track who uses the free TV sessions and how much time they are using it for? (and upsell to the too-expensive (to me) paid annual subscription.)įor reference, following is the actual 'desktop' file the TV-QS created (with only change being actual user replaced with "username"):Įxec=/home/username/.local/share/applications/teamviewerqs/tv_bin/script/teamviewer Note that I did discover that now in late 2023, TeamViewer seems to be requiring that I as the remote tech person, running the "full" TeamViewer program, now must create a TeamViewer account login and use that before I can connect to any TV-QS remote computer. I may give that a try if I encounter other issues with TeamViewer, see next. Though yet to test the connection from a couple of remote tries.Īlso, I found a multi-platform similar tool named HopToDesk for Win, Mac, Linux. So I think I may be OK on this situation now. (Blame my lack of familiarity with such a linux task.) desktop file from the above instructions. Which was a good thing, as I was unable to figure how to create a specific. Then it populated the Zorin menu, so I was able to assign it as a Favorite to the bottom taskbar/panel. home/username/.local/share/applications/teamviewerqs/ sktop home/username/.local/share/applications/teamviewerqsĪnd it also created its own 'desktop' file as: ![]() home/username/Downloads/teamviewer_qs(15.47.3).tar.gzĪnd it ended up creating the program directory: Just an FYI, it turned out that the Teamviewer that I downloaded did most of the steps when I re-tried it. I just don't yet know how to do that in Zorin/linux.) But I have been able to 'install'/copy the executable to Programs or Desktop in Windows, and Applications or Desktop in Mac. ![]() (I know that TeamViewer does not want you to "install" the QS, as they normally try to make you run it from a disk image in both Mac and Windows. I've tried them all, and the expected Execute button just causes something to very briefly flash on screen then nothing.ĭoes anyone know of a way to allow an icon to make TeamViewerQS run from the Desktop or Toolbar/taskbar/panel, or perhaps from the Zorin Start menu? I tried sending a alias-shortcut to the desktop but it does not actually invoke the TeamViewerQS program, instead offering me the choices of:Įxecute in terminal, Show, Cancel, Execute. So having it be in a folder in Downloads is not a permanent situation. However,īut, I am trying to make this findable for the Zorin user, who is not a technical person. TeamViewer QuickSupport, with the Your ID and Password fields populating after a few seconds. I can double-click the "teamviewer" executable and it runs and provides the expected mini-window showing just: WHAT I tried, as I need the QS (QuickSupport) NOT the full client.ĭownloaded: teamviewer_qs(15.47.3).tar.gzĮxpand the GZip into its folder (still in Downloads), the folder is named "teamviewerqs" As I say, those are for the Full TV Client, not the QS mini app.) (I reviewed both "I can’t install teamviewer in Zorin OS 16.2" and " How to install teamviewer app on zorin", which referenced "Install TeamViewer Zorin Help". I need a way to have just the QS QuickSupport TeamViewer module 'installed' and available for a non-technical user to simply click on.
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