wineserver - the Wine server
wineserver is a daemon process that provides to Wine
roughly the same services that the Windows kernel provides on Windows.
wineserver is normally launched automatically when starting
wine(1), so you shouldn't have to worry about it. In some cases
however, it can be useful to start wineserver explicitly with
different options, as explained below.
- -d[n],
--debug[=n]
- Set the debug level to n. 0 means no debugging information, 1 is
the normal level, and 2 is for extra verbose debugging. If n is not
specified, the default is 1. The debug output will be sent to stderr.
wine(1) will automatically enable normal level debugging when
starting wineserver if the +server option is set in the
WINEDEBUG variable.
- -f,
--foreground
- Make the server remain in the foreground for easier debugging, for
instance when running it under a debugger.
- -h, --help
- Display a help message.
- -k[n],
--kill[=n]
- Kill the currently running wineserver, optionally by sending signal
n. If no signal is specified, sends a SIGINT first and then
a SIGKILL. The instance of wineserver that is killed is
selected based on the WINEPREFIX environment variable.
- -p[n],
--persistent[=n]
- Specify the wineserver persistence delay, i.e. the amount of time
that the server will keep running when all client processes have
terminated. This avoids the cost of shutting down and starting again when
programs are launched in quick succession. The timeout n is in
seconds, the default value is 0 seconds. If n is not specified, the
server stays around forever.
- -v, --version
- Display version information and exit.
- -w, --wait
- Wait until the currently running wineserver terminates.
- WINEPREFIX
- If set, the content of this variable is taken as the name of the directory
where wineserver stores its data (the default is
$HOME/.wine). All wine processes using the same
wineserver (i.e.: same user) share certain things like registry,
shared memory and kernel objects. By setting WINEPREFIX to
different values for different Wine processes, it is possible to run a
number of truly independent Wine sessions.
- WINESERVER
- Specifies the path and name of the wineserver binary that will be
launched automatically by wine. If not set, wine will try to
load /usr/lib/wine/wineserver, and if this doesn't exist it will
then look for a file named wineserver in the path and in a few
other likely locations.
- ~/.wine
- Directory containing user specific data managed by wine.
- /tmp/.wine-uid
- Directory containing the server Unix socket and the lock file. These files
are created in a subdirectory generated from the WINEPREFIX
directory device and inode numbers.
The original author of wineserver is Alexandre Julliard.
Many other people have contributed new features and bug fixes. For a
complete list, see the git commit logs.