Windows version refuses to work under Wine

Question

Windows version refuses to work under Wine

Closed this issue 5 months ago · 8 comments

https://github.com/directvt/vtm/releases/latest/download/vtm_windows_x86.zip

$ wine --version
wine-9.0 (Ubuntu 9.0~repack-4build3)

$ wine ./vtm.exe -r term
0088:err:system:NtUserChangeDisplaySettings Changing L"\\\\.\\DISPLAY1" display settings returned -2.
0088:err:explorer:initialize_display_settings Failed to initialize registry display settings for L"\\\\.\\DISPLAY1".

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint
DISTRIB_RELEASE=22
DISTRIB_CODENAME=wilma
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 22 Wilma"

Answer 1 · 2024-09-30T15:53:37.000Z

Thanks for the report. Could you try running vtm with the specified shell?

wine ./vtm.exe -r term cmd.exe

PS: I don't know how much this is allowed in Wine and what environment it has.

Answer 2 · 2024-09-30T15:58:41.000Z

ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE

6 (0x6)

The handle is invalid.

Most likely it won't work. Apparently the Console Server is implemented there somehow differently than in the real Windows system. I use an undocumented Win32 API there.

Answer 3 · 2024-09-30T16:34:38.000Z

Thanks for the report. Could you try running vtm with the specified shell?

Answer 4 · 2024-09-30T17:04:29.000Z

Of all the options that are currently available, probably only the following will work in that environment, but only as a demo (although not very consistent, as on real Windows):

wine ./vtm.exe -r test

wine ./vtm.exe -r gems

wine ./vtm.exe -r calc

wine ./vtm.exe -r text

wine ./vtm.exe -r truecolor

Answer 5 · 2024-10-01T15:10:54.000Z

Looking at the Wine source, it seems that a number of necessary APIs are not implemented there.

ntdll.spec:
```
@ stub CsrClientCallServer
```
win32u.spec:
```
@ stub NtUserConsoleControl
```

Maybe someday I'll come up with a workaround for this.

Answer 6 · 2025-06-11T11:01:45.000Z

Close it in favor of #571.

Answer 7 · 2025-06-11T16:14:44.000Z

Thanks for the report. Could you try running vtm with the specified shell?

wine ./vtm.exe -r term cmd.exe

wine-9.0 (Ubuntu 9.0~repack-4build3)

Answer 8 · 2025-06-11T16:17:10.000Z

Of all the options that are currently available, probably only the following will work in that environment, but only as a demo (although not very consistent, as on real Windows):

All those commands worked, thanks, wow!