wineconsole screen scenarios

Hugh McMaster hugh.mcmaster at masterindexing.com
Sun May 19 07:26:21 CDT 2013


On Sunday, 19 May 2013 1:55 AM, Joel Holdsworth wrote:

>> On 16/05/13 13:04, Hugh McMaster wrote:
>> 3. wineconsole with --backend=curses, but no X server running
>> 
>> My concern is with scenario (3).  Wine is designed to be used with an 
>> X server, but wineconsole can be used in non-X-based environment.  
>> While this is possible, it would seem unlikely.
>> Nonetheless, the issue has come up on the wine-devel list before.
>> 
>> The question is, should I worry about supporting such a scenario?

>wine works really well with windows-only embedded compilers. With wine as it is, you can just shove them in a Makefile like any other tool.
>Magic!
>
>This is an very useful use-case, and definitely important to preserve console support in X-less environments for this.

Thank you for your response. As you may have seen, there's been quite a lot of support for using wineconsole in an X-less environment.

So don't worry, nothing will change.  In fact, I've come up with a way to keep this functionality amongst a lot of other changes to wineconsole in an GUI-based environment.



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