Question

I have been forced to work with a piece of Windows desktop software, so I run it under Wine. I want an alias for my zshrc that will run Xquartz and wine /path/to/file.exe in one go.

Answer 1

I thought that X launched automatically if you just leave the DISPLAY at the default
on my machine I see:

$ echo $DISPLAY 
/tmp/launch-WdPl5u/org.macosforge.xquartz:0

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That aside …

I never used wine (so I don’t know if wine is installed as a Mac App or just an executable), So I am Not sure which is a better way

function wineThis()
{
    open -a /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app
    open -a PATH_TO_WINE.app ${1}
}

or

function wineThis()
{
    /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS/X11.bin &
    disown
    wine ${1}  &
    disown
}

In both cases you should be able to do
wineThis /path/to/file.exe
in an alias or commandline

I think the disowns are optional, and should allow you to exit the bash shell

p.s. You could also do a hybrid (use open to launch X, then run wine in background (&) and disown)