Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's been a year or so since my last complaint, time > to complain again! > > wcmd is currently unusable when DISPLAY is not set. > > Normally, you can do > programs/wcmd/wcmd > and get a nice DOS prompt. However, if you do > unset DISPLAY > programs/wcmd/wcmd > you get a nonfunctional DOS prompt; for each keystroke, > it gives you a new prompt. Pressing ^C terminates wine, > and leaves stdin in raw mode. This makes it really friggin' hard to > use batch files > in a cron job or any other situation where you don't have X > available. (And *please* don't tell me to set up a fake X server > for this; that should simply not be needed. )
What we should probably do, now that we have support for a null display driver, is to flesh this out a little more and get rid of the tty driver. I don't think anybody in their right mind actually wants to run graphical apps on a tty, and the null driver is probably much closer to what people like you actually need. -- Alexandre Julliard [EMAIL PROTECTED]