Is it possible to run an application automatically?

[venstar]

Hi,

I am pretty new in the wine world and maybe I am asking a stupid question, so please have mercy.

I would like to run an application under wine directly, without waiting for the prompt and without executing it manually there. Something like autostart - I execute a Linux shell command that starts the wine and the needed application directly. Is this possible?

My application dumps some plain text info on the stdout and opens a socket so I can communicate with it remotely, no GUI needed. The ultimate goal is to run it remotely (over ssh) and leave it in backgroud.

It seems that it works but I do not know how correct is this. This is the dump I got from putty (no X-forwarding):

test@test-pc-nl001:~/.wine/drive_c$ wine test_wrapper.exe 5000
E: client-conf-x11.c: XOpenDisplay() failed
ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory
Listening on port: 5000
[native] ConnectTest: 1
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.
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.
fixme:comm:GetCommProperties (0xa8 0x33f9ac )
fixme:comm:set_queue_size insize 4096 outsize 2048 unimplemented stub
fixme:comm:GetCommProperties (0xa8 0x33f968 )
fixme:comm:io_control Unsupported IOCTL 1b009c (type=1b access=0 func=27 meth=0)
fixme:comm:set_queue_size insize 128 outsize 32 unimplemented stub
fixme:comm:GetCommProperties (0xa8 0x33f9dc )

Thank you in advance!

Kindest regards

[Daemon]

You'd have to read up on how to make it into a daemon process for your distro. As far as what the Unsupported IOCTL is (or if it's causing a major problem) you'd have to do some Googling.
WINEDEBUG=+comm wine test_wrapper.exe 5000 will give you more specific output

ed: Thinking about it you probably wouldn't want the wine process to run as root unless you can run it as a different user context somehow. Right, if it's non-GUI based then why is trying to create a X-session.

[vitamin]

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.

This indicates your program creates (or uses some part of Wine that creates) window(s). For that you absolutely have to have valid X session.

Unless you write you program in such a way that it doesn't create window(s) itself, and does not use any part of Wine that create windows, you can not run it as a daemon.