wineconsole screen scenarios

[Joel Holdsworth]

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On 16/05/13 13:04, Hugh McMaster wrote:
> In my effort to improve wineconsole and its calculations of the
> largest possible window size, three scenarios come into play.
> 
> 1. wineconsole with --backend=user (or more simply, 'wineconsole
> app.exe, in which case 'user' is the default). 2. wineconsole with
> --backend=curses. 3. wineconsole with --backend=curses, but no X
> server running.
> 
> Detecting the screen resolution is a simple task with (1) and (2).
> SystemParametersInfo for (1) and wine's own XRandR for (2) can be
> used.
> 
> 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.
> 
> The question is, should I worry about supporting such a scenario?
> 
> 

wine works really well with windows-only embedded compilers. With wine
as it is, you can just shove them in a Makefile like any other tool.
Magic!

This is an very useful use-case, and definitely important to preserve
console support in X-less environments for this.
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