How (or can) I ---

[Paul_Melson@keykertusa.com]

>Adam's suggestion has gotten me close. I have the vnc server running on
>the box in question. When I 'wine /path/to/app -display localhost:1'
>things start happening - among them an error that reads "extension
>'XFree86-VidModeExtension' missing". The strange thing is that if I run
>the vncviewer as a different user at this point, I find that the FAIRCOM
>service I'm trying to start is waiting for a mouse click to place it on
>the screen in the X session I'm viewing. It is unclear right now whether
>it actually working at that point but I suspect not. I'm not real sure
>yet whether it even works _after_ I place it on the virtual desktop. I
>cannot find any XFree86 rpm's that appear to be related to the
>VidModeExtension thing so I don't know what to do with that. Also, I
>still have to deal with starting this whole thing from rc.local as a
>normal user as the codeweavers version of wine will not work as root (I
>assume for security).

http://xfree86.org/4.0.2/XF86VidMode.3.html

It works great on mine, but I run XF86 4.x in framebuffer mode, so I don't 
know...

As far as running WINE as a non-root user, you could just add  "su user -c 
`wine -display wtfe:0.1 /path/program.exe`"  to your rc.local for a cheap 
& easy workaround.  Also, if this is the only instance of wine you'll run, 
you might just be able to use `chown wineuser.users /usr/local/bin/wine; 
chmod ug+s /usr/local/bin/wine`, though depending on how it checks for 
root privs, it might still not run.  Hope that helps.

PaulM