Wine without any X11 environment

David Fraser davidf at sjsoft.com
Fri Nov 15 11:49:14 CST 2002


Dustin Navea wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "David Fraser" <davidf at sjsoft.com>
>To: "Michael Riedel" <mriedel at inova-semiconductors.de>
>Cc: <wine-devel at winehq.com>
>Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 7:30 AM
>Subject: Re: Wine without any X11 environment
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>>Michael Riedel wrote:
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>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>is it possible to use wine in a telnet session to start a (command 
>>>line) windows application? I get the error that x11drv can't connect 
>>>to  a display (which is correct). I'm also not very sure that the 
>>>windows program itself does not perform some graphic related queries 
>>>(there were some fixme messages when I tried to use 'ttydrv').
>>>Any ideas? Is there any workaround to use a dummy display or whatever?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Michael
>>>      
>>>
>>Hi
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>>I just tested running some command line apps using wine from an ssh 
>>connection without
>>X11 and they worked fine... but some report the error you said (e.g. 
>>python.exe). Not sure what the difference is.
>>There is an alternate graphics driver called "ttydrv" (instead of 
>>"x11drv") which you can
>>use to run command line programs. This is configured in the 
>>~/.wine/config file - change
>>GraphicsDriver from "x11drv" to "ttydrv". You might want to give this a 
>>go, although
>>it just seems to produce errors for me :-).
>>What program are you trying to run?
>>
>>David
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>I think he did try using ttydrv, as he says in his original email:
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>>>(there were some fixme messages when I tried to use 'ttydrv').
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>So I dunno.
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>-Dustin
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Aaah. I see. I should read messages before replying in future.

- David





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