Am Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2007 18:02:53 schrieb Gonzalo Martinez - Sanjuan Sanchez:
Hello to all.
I have something in mind that I would like to ask to Wine developers. Is it possible using a hack/trick or a hidden option to change the name of wine in the proccess lists? I mean, Is it possible to list 'wine' proccess as, for example 'iexplorer' when I use Internet Explorer under Wine?
Thanks a lot for your work, hope my question find the answer here.
This is done since quite some time. apps are usually called "iexplore.exe", or they have the name of the file that was passed to wine, like C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe
If you still see "wine", "wineloader" or something similar you have a very outdated version of wine.
Hi! BTW I don't like this feature and I would prefer at least a commandline switch, or maybe a registry key, to prevent it. Why ? Because wine (and windows apps) sometimes crash and remain running, doing nothing useful but eating CPU/memory, and not being able to be killed easily (even killing the window doesn't close the app reliably). For this case, it's most easy to execute "killall -KILL <some static name like wine/wine-pthread>" instead of doing ps axufw, searching for the name of the app and then killing it. I had a single-liner script called kw (kill wine) and doing exactly the above command, and a beutifull bomb icon calling it. Now I can't se it - even killing wineserver sometimes doesn't help. With regards, Pavel Troller