https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49923
--- Comment #10 from Henri Verbeet hverbeet@gmail.com --- (In reply to ttallink from comment #9)
Now, that the curses backend was removed, the option to use wineconsole through a systemd service with a pseudo-terminal attached has vanished - it now requires a fully fledged desktop environment along with a display (or so it seems).
Is this wanted behavior?
No, something like the following is supposed to work:
unset DISPLAY wine cmd
I.e., if "wineconsole --backend=curses <executable>" previously worked without DISPLAY set, "wine <executable>" should currently work under the same circumstances. If it doesn't, that's a bug, but there should be no need for wineconsole to be involved.