wineserver is a daemon process that provides to Wine roughly the same
services that the Windows kernel provides on Windows.
wineserver is normally launched automatically when starting wine(1), so
you shouldn't have to worry about it. In some cases however, it can be
useful to start wineserver explicitly with different options, as
explained below.
OPTIONS
-d[n] Set the debug level to n. 0 means no debugging information, 1
is the normal level, and 2 is for extra verbose debugging. If n
is not specified, the default is 1. The debug output will be
sent to stderr. wine(1) will automatically set the debug level
when starting wineserver if the +server option is set in the
WINEDEBUG variable.
-f Make the server remain in the foreground for easier debugging,
for instance when running it under a debugger.
-h Display a help message.
-k[n] Kill the currently running wineserver, optionally by sending
signal n. If no signal is specified, sends a SIGINT first and
then a SIGKILL. The instance of wineserver that is killed is
selected based on the WINEPREFIX environment variable.
-p[n] Specify the wineserver persistence delay, i.e. the amount of
time that the server will keep running when all client processes
have terminated. This avoids the cost of shutting down and
starting again when programs are launched in quick succession.
The timeout n is in seconds, the default value is 3 seconds. If
n is not specified, the server stays around forever.
-v Display version information and exit.
-w Wait until the currently running wineserver terminates.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
WINEPREFIX
If set, the content of this variable is taken as the name of the
directory where wineserver stores its data (the default is
$HOME/.wine). All wine processes using the same wineserver
(i.e.: same user) share certain things like registry, shared
memory and kernel objects. By setting WINEPREFIX to different
values for different Wine processes, it is possible to run a
number of truly independent Wine sessions.
WINESERVER
Specifies the path and name of the wineserver binary that will
be launched automatically by wine. If not set, wine will try to
load /usr/local/bin/wineserver, and if this doesn't exist it
will then look for a file named wineserver in the path and in a
few other likely locations.
FILES
~/.wine
Directory containing user specific data managed by wine./tmp/.wine-uid
The directory containing the server Unix socket and the lock
file. These files are created in a subdirectory generated from
the WINEPREFIX directory device and inode numbers.
AUTHORS
The original author of wineserver is Alexandre Julliard. Many other
people have contributed new features and bug fixes. Please check the
file Changelog in the Wine distribution for the complete details.
BUGS
If you find a bug, please submit a bug report at
http://bugs.winehq.org.
AVAILABILITY
wineserver is part of the Wine distribution, which is available through
WineHQ, the Wine development headquarters, at http://www.winehq.org/.
