http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5856
Summary: wineconsole window sizing, scrolling, cursor setting, text input and signal handling failures Product: Wine Version: 0.9.18. Platform: Other OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: major Priority: P1 Component: wine-console AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: ekkehard.morgenstern@onlinehome.de
Wineconsole has difficulties with the most basic things like window size, scrolling, and text input. This shows especially when you try to use a command shell like by running "wineconsole wcmd" (hasn't anyone ever tried this?) to emulate the Windows command prompt. It's fairly unusable especially because the CTRL-C signal event isn't handled properly (crashes wineconsole). Even Windows users need a command line! ;-) The scrolling / cursor setting / etc. problem disappears when I resize my xterm to full window size, but that's not a way of working. Wineconsole must handle the window size of its enclosing terminal, not just after the first window size event occurs. On Windows (95,98,NT4,2000,XP), console window size isn't fixed, it's dynamic (user- and program-settable).
I've tested it on Wine 0.9.18 compiled from the source with GCC 4.0.3 on Slackware Linux 10.2 with Kernel 2.6.18.