---
name: "q4wine-helper"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "q4wine"
version: "1.3.13-1+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/q4wine-helper"
---

# q4wine-helper(1)

run Windows program in Q4Wine helper environment.

## NAME

q4wine-helper - run Windows program in Q4Wine helper environment.

## SYNOPSIS

 **q4wine-helper** \[**KEYs**\] ...\

## DESCRIPTION

**q4wine-helper** is a console utility for Q4Wine which helps to handle Wine application exit status and its stdout\\stderr output logging.\

## OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.

- **--prefix**

  sets current prefix name

- **--wine-debug**

  sets WINEDEBUG variable

- **--console**

  run with output in console

- **--display**

  sets DISPLAY variable

- **--nice**

  sets program niceness. See **man [nice(1)](/nice/1.md)** for details

- **--desktop**

  sets program virtual desktop resolution

- **--program-bin**

  sets program binary

- **--program-args**

  sets program args

- **--wrkdir**

  sets program working directory

- **--program-lang**

  sets program LANG variable

- **--override**

  sets WINEDLLOVERRIDES variable

## EXIT STATUS

**0** if OK or **-1** if serious troubles

## FILES

- */usr/bin/q4wine*

  The **Q4Wine** main gui program

- */usr/bin/q4wine-cli*

  The **Q4Wine** command line interface program

- */usr/bin/q4wine-helper*

  The **Q4Wine** runner helper program

- */usr/lib/q4wine*

  Directory containing **Q4Wine's** shared libraries

- *$HOME/.config/q4wine*

  Directory containing Q4Wine config, icons, database and temporary files.

## AUTHORS

### Thanks to all:

Q4Wine is available thanks to the work of many to all people, who were involved in development process, testing, bugreporting, packaging or translation creation. For a full listing of the authors, please see the file **AUTHORS** in the top-level directory of the source distribution.

### Active developers:

- Oleksii S. Malakhov (brezerk) \<**brezerk at gmail.com**\>

  Project maintainer, lead developer, web site designer and developer, project documentation, support, etc. ;)

- Sergey Skrypnic (opium) \<**opium@jabber.com.ua**\>

  Website developer, hosting administration

### Inactive developers:

- Pavel Zinin (pashazz) \<**pzinin at gmail.com**\>

  Winetricks plugin developer

- Dmitry Marakasov (amdmi3) \<**amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru**\>

  FreeBSD support fixes

## COPYRIGHT

Q4Wine can be distributed under the terms of the GPLv3 license. A copy of the license is in the file **LICENSE** in the top-level directory of the source distribution.

## AVAILABILITY

The most recent **public** version of wine can be downloaded from *https://q4wine.brezblock.org.ua/download/*

The latest snapshot of the code may be obtained via **GIT** for information on how to do this, please see *https://q4wine.brezblock.org.ua/download/#git*

Q4Wine, development headquarters, is at *https://q4wine.brezblock.org.ua* This website contains a great deal of information about Q4Wine.

## BUGS

If you find a bug in Q4Wine please report it to \<**brezerk at gmail.com**\> or directly to Q4Wine bug tracker *https://sourceforge.net/projects/q4wine/*

## SEE ALSO

[**q4wine**(1)](/q4wine/1.md), [**q4wine-cli**(1)](/q4wine-cli/1.md), [**wine**(1)](/wine/1.md), [**wineserver**(1)](/wineserver/1.md)