Teamviewer GUI not starting in Slackware 15.0 with slim

Hello everyone,

I have convinced my parents to try using Slackware Linux instead of Windows. As part of this, they have asked me to make sure that I can remotely connect and help them when needed.

I wanted to use x2go but unfortunately their ISP does not allow direct outside connections so I am stuck using TeamViewer. I have run into a problem: TeamViewer GUI refuses to start under Slackware 15. I've done the usual Web and forum searching to discover that TeamViewer evidently needs a graphical display manager to work. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to solve this issue.

What I have done on the test computer:

• Set initlevel to 4
• Installed slim
• Installed TeamViewer via SlackBuilds
• Set rc.teamviewer to +x
• Started the TV daemon
• Made sure the daemon was running before attempting to use the GUI

This is what I get when trying to run the Teamviewer GUI:

Code:Init...
CheckCPU: SSE2 support: yes
Checking setup...
Launching TeamViewer ...
Launching TeamViewer GUI ...Nothing in any of the TeamViewer logs is helpful.

I'm at a loss right now but I'm considering trying gdm as the SlackBuilds build of gdm does have PAM support and maybe that's what TV is expecting.

Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated!