wine users - May 2004 - Run Windows program minimized in Wine

Hallo,
I would like to run a Windows program minimised in Wine. In Windows I run it
from cygwin with the command
cmd /c "start /wait /min /low c:/WinSpice/wspice3.exe -b $1"
where cmd is the Windows command line interpreter; /c creates a new instance of
it and closes it when done; start starts the program wspice3 (-b is a wspice3
switch); /low runs it at low priority; /wait means further commands wait until
finished (not the default!) and /min runs it minimised.
I have tried this in Wine by copying across cmd.exe, but the /min switch is
ignored. It is read, as the command chokes on a /m switch for example. What I
am using is
nice -n 10 /opt/cxoffice/bin/wine --workdir $PWD c:\\winspice3\\wspice3.exe -b
$PWD/$1
but this pops up a graphics window which takes a lot of CPU cycles.
There used to be a -iconic switch to Wine, but it seems to have gone when
'-'
type switches were replaced by '--' ones. I couldn't trace the
history of when
and why that happened, or why -iconic disappeared. Does anyone know how I can
run this job, something like
nice -n 10 /opt/cxoffice/bin/wine --workdir $PWD com /c "start /wait /min
c:\\winspice3\\wspice3.exe -b $PWD/$1"
or
nice -n 10 /opt/cxoffice/bin/wine --workdir $PWD --iconic
c:\\winspice3\\wspice3.exe -b $PWD/$1
Best regards, Graham Petley

On Tue, 4 May 2004 00:11:44 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
> Hallo,
> I would like to run a Windows program minimised in Wine. In Windows I run
it
> from cygwin with the command
> cmd /c "start /wait /min /low c:/WinSpice/wspice3.exe -b $1"
> where cmd is the Windows command line interpreter; /c creates a new
instance of
> it and closes it when done; start starts the program wspice3 (-b is a
wspice3
> switch); /low runs it at low priority; /wait means further commands wait
until
> finished (not the default!) and /min runs it minimised.
> I have tried this in Wine by copying across cmd.exe, but the /min switch is
> ignored. It is read, as the command chokes on a /m switch for example. What
I
> am using is
> nice -n 10 /opt/cxoffice/bin/wine --workdir $PWD c:\\winspice3\\wspice3.exe
-b
> $PWD/$1
> but this pops up a graphics window which takes a lot of CPU cycles.
> There used to be a -iconic switch to Wine, but it seems to have gone when
'-'
> type switches were replaced by '--' ones. I couldn't trace the
history of when
> and why that happened, or why -iconic disappeared. Does anyone know how I
can
> run this job, something like
> nice -n 10 /opt/cxoffice/bin/wine --workdir $PWD com /c "start /wait
/min
> c:\\winspice3\\wspice3.exe -b $PWD/$1"
> or
> nice -n 10 /opt/cxoffice/bin/wine --workdir $PWD --iconic
> c:\\winspice3\\wspice3.exe -b $PWD/$1
> Best regards, Graham Petley
I do not know anything about the cxoffice wine, for details ask on the
proper list.

The official wine includes a program called "start" that supports the
switches /min and /wait.

Try "wine -- start /min someprog.exe" and see if you like the result
(win98's start.exe works here as well). 

Rein.
-- 
Rein Klazes
rklazes@xs4all.nl