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6 wineserver - the Wine server
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9 wineserver [options]
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12 wineserver is a daemon process that provides to Wine roughly the same
13 services that the Windows kernel provides on Windows.
14 wineserver is normally launched automatically when starting wine(1), so
16 you shouldn't have to worry about it. In some cases however, it can be
17 useful to start wineserver explicitly with different options, as ex‐
18 plained below.
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21 -d[n], --debug[=n]
22 Set the debug level to n. 0 means no debugging information, 1
23 is the normal level, and 2 is for extra verbose debugging. If n
24 is not specified, the default is 1. The debug output will be
25 sent to stderr. wine(1) will automatically enable normal level
26 debugging when starting wineserver if the +server option is set
27 in the WINEDEBUG variable.
28 -f, --foreground
30 Make the server remain in the foreground for easier debugging,
31 for instance when running it under a debugger.
32 -h, --help
34 Display a help message.
35 -k[n], --kill[=n]
37 Kill the currently running wineserver, optionally by sending
38 signal n. If no signal is specified, sends a SIGINT first and
39 then a SIGKILL. The instance of wineserver that is killed is
40 selected based on the WINEPREFIX environment variable.
41 -p[n], --persistent[=n]
43 Specify the wineserver persistence delay, i.e. the amount of
44 time that the server will keep running when all client processes
45 have terminated. This avoids the cost of shutting down and
46 starting again when programs are launched in quick succession.
47 The timeout n is in seconds, the default value is 3 seconds. If
48 n is not specified, the server stays around forever.
49 -v, --version
51 Display version information and exit.
52 -w, --wait
54 Wait until the currently running wineserver terminates.
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57 WINEPREFIX
58 If set, the content of this variable is taken as the name of the
59 directory where wineserver stores its data (the default is
60 $HOME/.wine). All wine processes using the same wineserver
61 (i.e.: same user) share certain things like registry, shared
62 memory and kernel objects. By setting WINEPREFIX to different
63 values for different Wine processes, it is possible to run a
64 number of truly independent Wine sessions.
65 WINESERVER
67 Specifies the path and name of the wineserver binary that will
68 be launched automatically by wine. If not set, wine will try to
69 load /usr/bin/wineserver, and if this doesn't exist it will then
70 look for a file named wineserver in the path and in a few other
71 likely locations.
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74 ~/.wine
75 Directory containing user specific data managed by wine.
76 /tmp/.wine-uid
78 Directory containing the server Unix socket and the lock file.
79 These files are created in a subdirectory generated from the
80 WINEPREFIX directory device and inode numbers.
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83 The original author of wineserver is Alexandre Julliard. Many other
84 people have contributed new features and bug fixes. For a complete
85 list, see the git commit logs.
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88 Bugs can be reported on the Wine bug tracker ⟨https://bugs.winehq.org⟩.
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91 wineserver is part of the Wine distribution, which is available through
92 WineHQ, the Wine development headquarters ⟨https://www.winehq.org/⟩.
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95 wine(1),
96 Wine documentation and support ⟨https://www.winehq.org/help⟩.
97Wine 6.10 October 2005 WINESERVER(1)