Ubuntu 20.04 shows a black screen when connecting through Teamviewer, but I still have ssh access. How can I get back the desktop?
I have a Ubuntu 20.04 desktop and connecting to it remotely via Teamviewer shows only a black screen. I can type and it will show what I type but it registers nothing. I still have ssh access. How can I get back my login screen through teamviewer?
I installed TeamViewer 15.17.6 and had the same effect.
As I just upgraded from 16.04, the first thing to check was if I ran Wayland now. This is not the case, I'm still on X11, so it's not Wayland's fault.
The problem also vanished after I downgraded TeamViewer to version 15.14.3.
Seems to be a bug in TeamViewer itself.
Edit: Just to clearify: I had the black screen in TeamViewer's Window, so I could not see the remote system.
If you meant that your Ubuntu 20.04 is the remote system and this one shows a black screen as soon as a TeamViewer client connects, this could just be caused by the option "enable local black screen" (see https://community.teamviewer.com/English/kb/articles/50966-teamviewer-black-screen)
Had the same issue, but I found a simple solution.
Make sure to login with 'Ubuntu x.org'
To do that:
- Logoff from your Ubuntu account
- Click in the login screen on your login name
- An icon appears in the rigth bottom corner
- Click on it and select Ubuntu X.org and login to your account.
- In 'Users' make sure 'Automatic Login' is set to 'On'
Issue explaination: For security reasons Teamviewer (remote acces) is blocked on/with Wayland (that is implemented with the regular Ubuntu login)