[Bug 46211] Please delay X11 initialization until needed by the application in order to avoid spurious X error message

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Thu Nov 29 08:35:34 CST 2018


https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46211

Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #1 from Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> ---
(In reply to Vincent Lefevre from comment #0)
> Wine should delay X11 initialization until it knows that X is needed by the
> application. Otherwise one can get a spurious error message such as "Invalid
> MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key" (in the past from Xlib, now from libxcb) while X11
> is actually not needed.

That's already the case, the display driver is only loaded when needed.
However, many things need the display driver behind the scenes, even for
console mode applications. That's not something that can be fixed in general.

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