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WINESERVER(1) Windows on Unix WINESERVER(1)

NAME

wineserver - the Wine server

SYNOPSIS

wineserver [options]

DESCRIPTION

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.

OPTIONS

-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
3 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.

ENVIRONMENT

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/bin/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.

FILES

~/.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.

AUTHORS

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.

BUGS

Bugs can be reported on the Wine bug tracker
<https://bugs.winehq.org>.

AVAILABILITY

wineserver is part of the Wine distribution, which is available
through WineHQ, the Wine development headquarters
<https://www.winehq.org/>.