I’ve had situation when I urgently need access to my desktop. And I had only one program for remote control – teamviewer.
So here described one of the ways to run it when you have only ssh (i.e. command line):
- first of all connect to remote machine via ssh.
- check if daemon is running fine:
teamviewer --daemon status - determine Partner ID (remote machine id):
teamviewer --info | grep "TeamViewer ID" - start it via one of the these methods. In my case worked only one:
export DISPLAY=":0.0"
teamviewer - obtain password. Here is two possible ways… in command line:
teamviewer --passwd [PASSWD]
this one din’t work for me 🙁 so lets take screen-shot of teamviewer window (with password) and via scp download it. for this:
xwd -name TeamViewer | xwdtopnm | pnmtopng > passwd.png