WHAT I tried, as I need the QS (QuickSupport) NOT the full client.
Downloaded: teamviewer_qs(15.47.3).tar.gz https://www.teamviewer.com/en-us/download/linux/
TeamViewer QuickSupport
v 15.47.3
type tar.gz
It saved to Downloads
Expand the GZip into its folder (still in Downloads), the folder is named "teamviewerqs"
I can double-click the "teamviewer" executable and it runs and provides the expected mini-window showing just:
TeamViewer QuickSupport, with the Your ID and Password fields populating after a few seconds.
So looks to work perfectly from there. However,
But, I am trying to make this findable for the Zorin user, who is not a technical person. So having it be in a folder in Downloads is not a permanent situation.
I tried sending a alias-shortcut to the desktop but it does not actually invoke the TeamViewerQS program, instead offering me the choices of:
Execute in terminal, Show, Cancel, Execute. I've tried them all, and the expected Execute button just causes something to very briefly flash on screen then nothing.
Does 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 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. But I have been able to 'install'/copy the executable to Programs or Desktop in Windows, and Applications or Desktop in Mac. I just don't yet know how to do that in Zorin/linux.)
You need to make a .desktop file and place it in the user(s) ~/.local/share/applications directory.
Properly make the exec=sh -c "commands"
A .desktop file could look like this (you need to fill out the right information).
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Slay the Spire
Comment=Play this game on Steam
Exec=steam steam://rungameid/646570
Icon=steam_icon_646570
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Game;
Thanks all.
Just an FYI, it turned out that the Teamviewer that I downloaded did most of the steps when I re-tried it. File downloaded was:
/home/username/Downloads/teamviewer_qs(15.47.3).tar.gz
And it ended up creating the program directory:
/home/username/.local/share/applications/teamviewerqs
And it also created its own 'desktop' file as:
/home/username/.local/share/applications/teamviewerqs/ teamviewer.desktop
Then it populated the Zorin menu, so I was able to assign it as a Favorite to the bottom taskbar/panel.
Which was a good thing, as I was unable to figure how to create a specific .desktop file from the above instructions. (Blame my lack of familiarity with such a linux task...)
So I think I may be OK on this situation now. Though yet to test the connection from a couple of remote tries.
If I have further notes, I'll post.
Further tech details:
Also, I found a multi-platform similar tool named HopToDesk for Win, Mac, Linux. I may give that a try if I encounter other issues with TeamViewer, see next.
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. 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.)
For reference, following is the actual 'desktop' file the TV-QS created (with only change being actual user replaced with "username"):
teamviewer.desktop
(And on a final postscript, I found the FSearch program to be super helpful to me in finding the various pieces of TeamViewer after this whole process. It's a good linux replacement for the wonderful Search Everything engine of Windows.)