wine users - Oct 2008 - Running GUI applications in background

Is that possible ? e.g run notepad.exe in console(not in WM) and it runs in
background without creating windows in VM

run gui applications without window manager so they stay in background(no need
input from user)

biGGer wrote:
> Is that possible ? e.g run notepad.exe in console(not in WM) and it runs in
background without creating windows in VM
> 
> run gui applications without window manager so they stay in background(no
need input from user)
No this is impossible. Wine required valid X session for all GUI apps.

There might be at least two ways for this...

One is with cmdow.exe, http://www.commandline.co.uk/cmdow/

Syntax would be cmdow /run /hid process.exe - could also be written
into a batch file.

Another is with the Windows Cron port,
http://www.kalab.com/freeware/cron/cron.htm - Cron runs everything
windowless.

or something like old Norton Commander scheduler, which allowed running
apps as hidden/systray-iconised.

On 11.10.2008 at 9:34 biGGer wrote:
>Is that possible ? e.g run notepad.exe in console(not in WM) and it
runs
>in background without creating windows in VM
>
>run gui applications without window manager so they stay in
background(no need input from user)



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