Teamviewer is a proprietary software application for remote control, desktop sharing, online meetings, web conferencing and file transfer between computers.

Spotify operates under a freemium model (basic services are free, while additional features are offered via paid subscriptions). Spotify makes its revenues by selling premium streaming subscriptions to users and advertising placements to third parties.

Installing TeamViewer

Teamviewer can be only be installed from source.

Installing from the Arch User Respository(AUR)

To install Spotify from the AUR using your favorite package manager or the command:

pamac build teamviewer

Tips & Tricks

Manual configuration of media keys

If your system does not detect the media keys, their names are (in order) XF86AudioPlay, XF86AudioStop, XF86AudioNext, XF86AudioPrevious

dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.PlayPause
dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Stop
dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Next
dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify /org/mpris/MediaPlayer2 org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player.Previous

Opening Links from Spotify

Spotify may fail to open links (e.g. for password reset or login via Facebook). To fix this, install xdg-desktop-portal-gtk via:

pamac install xdg-desktop-portal-gtk

PGP signatures could not be verified

Import the public key with

curl -sS https://download.spotify.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | gpg --import -

then try installing it again

pamac build spotify

TeamViewer

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