http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36040
--- Comment #2 from Josh Triplett josh@joshtriplett.org --- (In reply to sworddragon2 from comment #1)
Before seeing this ticket I have opened a related topic in the forum: http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=22645
Currently it is a little tricky to change the default timeout. The WINESERVER environment variable seems to be not working correctly as it would otherwise server as a workaround for this problem. But instead of having an environment variable that controls just a flag if the persistence should be disabled or not it would make more sense to control directly the timeout (as this would implicitly include such a flag).
A variable to set the timeout, with a specified way to disable persistence (timeout 0, for instance), would work just fine for me.