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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.

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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
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  • This worked perfectly for me. It's probably a much more elegant way to do it than killing the process. Jun 21, 2017 at 18:47
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These work too:

sudo service teamviewerd stop
sudo service teamviewerd start
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In Ubuntu 16.04

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

or

sudo systemctl restart teamviewerd.service
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  • For me It also worked without the ending .service. Mar 15, 2020 at 9:55
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kill accepts PIDs, not process command names. Try pkill, or killall:

sudo pkill TeamViewer.exe

Or:

sudo pkill -f TeamViewer.exe
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  • The pkill command did the trick to kill TeamViewer. How do I restart? Mar 8, 2015 at 20:52
  • @NotMy1RealName how do you usually start it?
    – muru
    Mar 8, 2015 at 20:56
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    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. Mar 9, 2015 at 1:20

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