Kill and Restart TeamViewer 10 Ubuntu 14.04

Question

How do I kill and restart TeamViewer 10 on ubuntu from the command line?

I tried running sudo kill -HUP teamviewer* and other variants (TeamViewer.exe; which I got from the system monitor) with no luck.

I have an issue sometimes with Teamviewer hanging and it would be nice not to have to reboot my system to get TV10 working again.

Solution 1

kill accepts PIDs, not process command names. Try pkill, or killall:

sudo pkill TeamViewer.exe

Or:

sudo pkill -f TeamViewer.exe

Solution 2

In other versions of teamviewer some times the daemon has to be restarted the in order to run the teamviewer app again after closing it.

sudo teamviewer --daemon stop
sudo teamviewer --daemon start

or

sudo teamviewer --daemon restart

Solution 3

These work too:

sudo service teamviewerd stop
sudo service teamviewerd start

Solution 4

In Ubuntu 16.04

sudo systemctl stop teamviewerd.service
sudo systemctl start teamviewerd.service

or

sudo systemctl restart teamviewerd.service

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Comments

[muru]

@NotMy1RealName how do you usually start it?

[NotMy1RealName]

It starts at boot. However, the issue is that the program crashes at times and needs to be killed and restarted. I've xkill 'd the program, but I can't restart it unless I reboot. Very inconvenient.

[drwatsoncode]

This worked perfectly for me. It's probably a much more elegant way to do it than killing the process.

[PJ_Finnegan]

For me It also worked without the ending .service.