[Wine] Dissapearence of the program

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 10:47:08 CST 2009


On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:44 AM, simeon.mattes
<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>
> austin987 wrote:
>>
>> Sounds like a bug in window managing. That could be a bug in your
>> window manager or wine. Using a virtual desktop should help. Your
>> whole OS crashing, however, is a kernel/driver bug (unless you're
>> running as root)...
>>
>> --
>> -Austin
>
>
> What do you mean unless I'm running as root? Actually I'm running as a user. Should I try to run the same application as root?

No. I mean that Wine can't crash your system unless you're running as
root. Any crashes are simply bugs in the kernel or drivers, exposed by
Wine.


-- 
-Austin



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