Dan Kegel daniel.r.kegel@gmail.com writes:
It's been a year or so since my last complaint, time to complain again!
wcmd is currently unusable when DISPLAY is not set.
Normally, you can do programs/wcmd/wcmd and get a nice DOS prompt. However, if you do unset DISPLAY programs/wcmd/wcmd you get a nonfunctional DOS prompt; for each keystroke, it gives you a new prompt. Pressing ^C terminates wine, and leaves stdin in raw mode. This makes it really friggin' hard to use batch files in a cron job or any other situation where you don't have X available. (And *please* don't tell me to set up a fake X server for this; that should simply not be needed. )
What we should probably do, now that we have support for a null display driver, is to flesh this out a little more and get rid of the tty driver. I don't think anybody in their right mind actually wants to run graphical apps on a tty, and the null driver is probably much closer to what people like you actually need.