[Wine] Running a wine app from a control panel.

[James McKenzie]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Sapro <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> It runs fine through SSH, it does throw up the display error but I can still connect to the game server via my windows based PC fine.
>
> If I do it through terminal I use the wine /gamelocation/game.exe -m (parameters to run) and it runs fine with the display error.
>
> But the problem is I want it to launch from an apache based website control panel. It's controlled by the user www-data. It does launch the game
> with setting wine as the executable with the game as a parameter. But it gets killed by Error opening terminal: unknown.
>
> This only occurs if I try use the control panel to launch the game. Im not entirely sure it's a wine problem, just curious as to whether anyone else
> has had this error before?
>
A search of the forums will reveal that, yes, others have had problems
running 'stand alone servers' without setting a legitimate DISPLAY
variable.  There are x-server stubs that will take care of this as
well.  Suggest that you search the forums for helpful hints.