[Xubuntu 20.04] Wineserver will not exit after application ends

[hotfrostworm]

As some of you know, Wine defaults to wine-5.0 (Ubuntu 5.0-3ubuntu1) in this distribution.

I followed the normal steps to install Wine 7.0;
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
wget -O - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ focal main'
sudo apt update
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable

That seemed to work just fine. Until I noticed every application would exit, but the task manager showed the server remains active and I had several copies of winedevice.exe and other executables active. Trying to debug it was giving me a headache, so I ran;
sudo apt remove --auto-remove winehq-stable
and I reinstalled the default 5.0 until I figure out what needs to be done here. Wine 5.0 is working great for my apps, I just thought I would keep up to date. If you see anything I missed in the installation or maybe there is a known issue, please let me know. I will bookmark the thread and check back in later.

Thanks.

[hotfrostworm]

I tried this again over the weekend. Nothing changed, just noticed it rewrote my USB joystick settings for one game. I had to reset the old ones back for 5.0 or assuming I can get 7.0 working proper, I need to repair the new settings on the USB joystick. Maybe I should just stick with the 5.0. I will check back in here next week.

[hotfrostworm]

Since there is no others experiencing this same issue, I decided to try once again. I uninstalled default Wine 5.0 and reinstalled Wine 7.0 once more.

Here are the steps I have done;

sudo apt remove wine*
sudo apt autoremove
reboot
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
reboot
wine --version
wine-7.0

I am home with a stomach flu today, so I will play some games and see how it all goes. If the winesever and all the windows executables close out properly I will mark this mystery closed. Unfortunately I have no idea what would have changed. I have to go reprogram my USB joystick now and drink some pink bismuth liquid.

[16bituser]

If the problem persist: Does it happen with all applications/games you use? Can you give example of those that result in this problem?