Debian – How to start Application in Wine From a terminal window

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I am running Wine on a Linux Server so as to run some old Windows Applications.

I now need to write a script to make sure they are running.

Is it possible to create an ssh connection to the server and start the application?

e.g. if I am on the desktop, open a terminal window and run

wine "Z:\home\user\Desktop\application"

the application opens. But If I connect by SSH and run

wine "Z:\home\user\Desktop\application"

I get:

Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.
err:systray:initialize_systray Could not create tray window
Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.

I'm assuming I need to tell it where to start the application rather than just starting it, but can't see how to do this?

ADDITIONAL INFO:

I am currently working on a Windows PC, and connecting with Putty to the Linux/Wine server. (I also have a RDP connection so I can see the desktop).

Long term I will be running the script on another Linux server (MgmtSrv) that will make an ssh connection to the Linux/Wine server to manage it. The MgmtSrv does not have Wine installed, and does not have an X-Display set up.

Best Answer

As you surmise, you need to tell Wine where to display its applications. Since your Wine server has an X display, it's probably :0:

DISPLAY=:0 wine ...

should do the trick (assuming your X authentication cookies are OK; if they're not you'll get an Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE error).

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If the server you're ssh'ing into has a GUI running you forgo using the -X switch to ssh and set the $DISPLAY variable on the server prior to running the wine application like so:

$ DISPLAY=:0.0 wine Artemis.exe

If on the other hand you do want to see the GUI via ssh then you could try changing the compression used to hopefully speed things up via SSH tunnel.

$ ssh -c arcfour,blowfish-cbc -X wine Artemis.exe

Using these ciphers should significantly speed up your connection.

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i ever play in fullscreen , i make my scripts for change the resolution & refresh rate of my monitor , because i use the wrong rate , in my monitor appear a floating box with a msg "Entrace not adm" . for fix that i use something like the follow

This its with "Ace Of Spades"

#!/bin/bash

# Resolution Fix
echo `xrandr --current | grep current | awk '{print $8}'` >> /tmp/width
echo `xrandr --current | grep current | awk '{print $10}'` >> /tmp/height
cat /tmp/height | sed -i 's/,//g' /tmp/height
WIDTH=$(cat /tmp/width)
HEIGHT=$(cat /tmp/height)
rm /tmp/height /tmp/height
echo "$WIDTH"x"$HEIGHT" >> /tmp/Resolution
Resolution=$(cat /tmp/Resolution)
rm /tmp/Resolution
# Resolution Fix

BINARY="$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Ace of Spades/client.exe"
$(wine "$BINARY" -"$@" "%u") &
xrandr -s 800x600 -r 77

sleep 2
BINARYPID=$(pidof $BINARY)
taskset -p 0xFFFFFFFF $BINARYPID &

while Launchers=$(pidof "client.exe")
    do   
        sleep 1
    done
    xrandr -s $Resolution -r 63
exit 0

In Resume this script its for launch Ace Of Spade , from the "mimetype" and the servers from web-browser for the protocol "aos://" that's its another type of configuration , i not explain here.

This launch the game , after the game its launched , the resolution of monitor are change to 800x600 until i close the game , when i close the game , my resolution are restored.

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