Wine doesn't do X11, does it?

w91745 · Post by **w91745** » Mon May 14, 2012 1:51 pm

We have a box running Enterprise Redhat that several people SSH into. If we installed Wine on it and a windows application, does Wine automagically let us run the GUI of the application via X Window System? Didn't think so, but had to ask....

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Mon May 14, 2012 2:02 pm

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 2:51 PM, w91745 <[email protected]> wrote:

We have a box running Enterprise Redhat that several people SSH into. If we installed Wine on it and a windows application, does Wine automagically let us run the GUI of the application via X Window System? Didn't think so, but had to ask....

I am unsure what you are asking. Wine will let you run windows
applications (not all but a lot - check appdb.winehq.org) on linux and
ones with GUIs will run under the X window system.

John

w91745 · Post by **w91745** » Mon May 14, 2012 2:13 pm

John Drescher wrote:I am unsure what you are asking. Wine will let you run windows applications (not all but a lot - check appdb.winehq.org) on linux and ones with GUIs will run under the X window system.

Sorry, let me ask my Q this way:

Let's say I install Wine + TextPad (a Windows text editing app) on our Linux box.

Can I log into our box remotely, launch TextPad, and have it show on my local desktop via X11? (Assuming I'm running an X server on my local desktop).

Sorry if this is a dumb question.

And thanks for that URL. I see several apps there useful for us.

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Mon May 14, 2012 2:24 pm

Let's say I install Wine + TextPad (a Windows text editing app) on our Linux box.

Can I log into our box remotely, launch TextPad, and have it show on my local desktop via X11? (Assuming I'm running an X server on my local desktop).

I understand the question now however I have never ever tried that so
I am not sure what will happen. Someone else will have to answer
that..

John

mangan88 · Post by **mangan88** » Mon May 14, 2012 2:28 pm

Looks like the key word here is remote X11.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine# ... 1_sessions

Appears to have a link to some resources to allow you to do what you need. It basically requires an addition to wine's regedit.exe to allow the window to be drawn, if I'm reading it properly. Hope that helps!

w91745 · Post by **w91745** » Mon May 14, 2012 2:48 pm

Thanks John D & Mangan88!

Bruno Jesus · Post by **Bruno Jesus** » Mon May 14, 2012 2:53 pm

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 4:13 PM, w91745 <[email protected]> wrote:

Sorry, let me ask my Q this way:

Let's say I install Wine + TextPad (a Windows text editing app) on our Linux box.

Can I log into our box remotely, launch TextPad, and have it show on my local desktop via X11? (Assuming I'm running an X server on my local desktop).

Yes, if you mean forwarding X through ssh -X. You can run mostly every
program remotely by doing that. I have done that during remote debug
sessions.

Martin Gregorie · Post by **Martin Gregorie** » Mon May 14, 2012 2:57 pm

On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 15:23 -0400, John Drescher wrote:

Let's say I install Wine + TextPad (a Windows text editing app) on
our Linux box.
Can I log into our box remotely, launch TextPad, and have it show on
my local desktop via X11? (Assuming I'm running an X server on my
local desktop).

I understand the question now however I have never ever tried that so
I am not sure what will happen. Someone else will have to answer
that..

Yes, if you have ssh/sshd configured to allow X.11 port forwarding from
the host running Wine, then the Windows app's display will appear on
your local machine.

I do that all the time with my RH Fedora boxes. If you can start, say a
web browser or the GIMP on the remote host and control the program from
your display and keyboard, then Windows apps under Wine can do the same.

Martin

w91745 · Post by **w91745** » Mon May 14, 2012 3:34 pm

Thanks Bruno & Martin. That was the answer I was hoping to hear.