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I'm trying to run a Windows app (Artemis video game - server mode) on my archlinux server. As it is an windows application I have to run it using Wine.

As I'd like to be able to launch the server from anywhere, I'd like to do it using ssh -X (unfortunatelly this app can only be configured and launched on GUI mode)

I manage to launch wine Artemis.exe on both my laptop (local install) and my server, however launching it using ssh -X gives me an error :

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I'd like to poitn out that ssh -X works fine between those two. I managed to launch "wine notepad" using ssh -X !

It seams to come down to directX, which I don't really know about. I tried installing directX9 through winetricks on both the laptop and the server.

Did anyone face this before ? Have you got any solution for me to try ?

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If the server you're ssh'ing into has a GUI running you forgo using the -X switch to ssh and set the $DISPLAY variable on the server prior to running the wine application like so:

$ DISPLAY=:0.0 wine Artemis.exe

If on the other hand you do want to see the GUI via ssh then you could try changing the compression used to hopefully speed things up via SSH tunnel.

$ ssh -c arcfour,blowfish-cbc -X wine Artemis.exe

Using these ciphers should significantly speed up your connection.

References

SSH - How to make X applications run on client?

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  • I in fact whant to see the GUI via ssh. The compression itself doesn't solve the bug. However I got it working using ssh -Y instead of ssh -X. Yet, ssh -Y -c arcfour,blowfish-cbc doesn't give efficient result for succesffully forwarding such an application
    – Amxx
    Mar 2, 2014 at 19:42

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