wineconsole screen scenarios

Michael Stefaniuc mstefani at redhat.com
Thu May 16 09:13:41 CDT 2013


On 05/16/2013 03:34 PM, Hugh McMaster wrote:
> 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?
Yes, that is a safe assumption. Wine is *not* X specific anymore. On
MacOSX you can use the native quartz driver. And I wouldn't wonder if
Alexandre plans for a native driver for Android too.

bye
	michael



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