Alexandre Julliard wrote:
James Mckenzie jjmckenzie51@earthlink.net writes:
It does not hurt anything but Wine's reputation. I don't know, but the phrase "I would rather be run over rather than run down" does apply here. In other words, we should be getting positive responses to user experiences, rather than dealing with newbies having to delete their .wine directories because they ran Wine as root without setting to the root environment.
Again, please demonstrate the exact sequence that leads to an actual problem, not just vague hearsay of people reporting problems that may or may not have anything to do with this.
Will this work? BTW default Open SuSE configuration.
vitaliy@dragon:~ $export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-root vitaliy@dragon:~ $sudo wine winecfg root's password: wine: created the configuration directory '/root/.wine' Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded. Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly. Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded. Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly. err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 1114 err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 1114 Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded. Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly. err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 1114 err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654 err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654 err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654 Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled. err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654 err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654 err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 0 err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654 err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 0 err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654 err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error -536870654 err:wgl:process_attach X11DRV or GDI32 not loaded. Cannot create default context. wine: configuration in '/root/.wine' has been updated. Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded. Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly. Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded. Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly. err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 1114