wine users - Oct 2011 - unable to start when WINELOADER is set to path of winconsole

Hi all.

I am wanting to run the following command from the shell ::
wineconsole explorer /desktop=ajay

Since I intend to launch Windows CUI executables after launching explorer, I use
wineconsole; and secondly, I set WINELOADER to the path of 'wineconsole'
binary.  (These steps are in conjunction with the link
http://www.winehq.org/docs/wine

But the application just hangs, always.

However, if I omit the second step, (or explicitly set the
WINELOADER=''), the application runs vanilla fine.


Now, the reason I am asking this is because I want to run explorer and windows
applications, by launching through a wine script. By simply using wineconsole
(and not setting WINELOADER), the explorer runs fine, but when I launch windows
applications, I am not able to input from keyboard. If I do set WINELOADER to
the path of wineconsole, the application just fails to start.



So, in nutshell, why is the application hanging when I set WINELOADER to the
path of wineconsole binary?


Regards,
Ajay

ajaygarg wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I am wanting to run the following command from the shell ::
> wineconsole explorer /desktop=ajay
> 
> Since I intend to launch Windows CUI executables after launching explorer,
I use wineconsole; and secondly, I set WINELOADER to the path of
'wineconsole' binary.  (These steps are in conjunction with the link
http://www.winehq.org/docs/wine
> 
> But the application just hangs, always.
> 
> However, if I omit the second step, (or explicitly set the
WINELOADER=''), the application runs vanilla fine.
> 
> 
> Now, the reason I am asking this is because I want to run explorer and
windows applications, by launching through a python script. By simply using
wineconsole (and not setting WINELOADER), the explorer runs fine, but when I
launch windows applications, I am not able to input from keyboard. If I do set
WINELOADER to the path of wineconsole, the application just fails to start.
> 
> 
> 
> So, in nutshell, why is the application hanging when I set WINELOADER to
the path of wineconsole binary?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Ajay