in the past few days, I have been experiencing great wine stability by using another instance of X, here is the script:
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if [[ $1 = "run" ]]; then
wine Game.exe
elif [[ $1 = "X1" ]]; then
function FUNCisX1running {
ps -A -o command |grep -v "grep" |grep -q -x "X :1"
}
if ! FUNCisX1running; then
xterm -e "sudo X :1"&
fi
# wait for X to start
while ! FUNCisX1running; do
sleep 1
done
# run in a thread, prevents I from ctrl+c at xterm here
# what breaks THIS X :0 instace and locks the keyboard! :/
xterm -display :1 -e "cd $HOME/Wine; $0 run; bash"&
fi
therefore, my guess is there is some conflict with ubuntu 12.04 unity + compiz plugins, that caused my machine to freeze each half to 1 hour of wine game play...
now, I can play how long I want, the game will only crash because of its own bugs, not anymore because of linux window manager etc..
so, I would like to ppl to try this, and report;
but to ask even more, if there could have an option in winecfg, to let we opt to instantiate another X session and manage it,
because right now, after exiting the game or if it crashes by its own bugs, I have to go on the terminal I issued "sudo X :1" and hit ctrl+c, and run the script again;
so wine could create a popup to terminate the other X session;
you still have to ctrl+alt+f7 or f8 or f9 to access it and get back to your normal X session;
Obs.: I couldnt keep my keyboard layout values I dont know why, even if I try to setup them there with xmodmap.. so if someone find a workaround for this, I would like to know also! (what I did was to change the keys at the game configuration but couldnt yet for the new X :1 session as a whole)
thx!
