wineconsole screen scenarios

Hugh McMaster hugh.mcmaster at masterindexing.com
Thu May 16 08:34:05 CDT 2013


On Thursday, 16 May 2013
Rosanne DiMesio wrote:

>On Thu, 16 May 2013 08:04:07 -0400
>Hugh McMaster wrote:
>>
>> My concern is with scenario (3).  Wine is designed to be used with an X server, but wineconsole can be used in non-X-based environment.  While this is possible, it would seem unlikely. Nonetheless, the issue has come up on the wine-devel list before.
>> 

>It's not common, but we have had users on the forum who are using wineconsole to run DOS apps. They're usually pretty adament about not wanting or
>needing X.

Is it safe to assume then, that such users do not have any X libraries installed? Or do they simply choose not to use an X server?



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