[Wine] Mac OS X, DOS tools start X11, this is silly...

perryh at pluto.rain.com perryh at pluto.rain.com
Fri Sep 11 02:13:42 CDT 2009


James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote on Sept. 10th:
> >Has there been any thought given to delaying wine's
> >initialization of its X connection, fonts, etc. until
> >the Windows program actually executes a call that
> >requires an X server?
> >
> This will cause Wine to crash with an X server not found error...
>
> In other words, there has to be a running X server in order for
> Wine to run.  This is a requirement even for windowless operations.

Again, has there been any thought given as to whether this
requirement is _necessary_?  What problems would arise if it
delayed locating the X server, opening a connection, setting
up fonts, etc. until the Windows program actually performs
some operation that touches the display?



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