http://www.winehq.com/hypermail/wine-devel/2002/09/0720.html
the default winedbg invocation should include the .exe extension (assuming WINEDLLPATH is set). And indeed it seems to work better that way; I can now use an xterm instead of wineconsole.
Changelog:
AeDebug should invoke winedbg directly.
Index: winedefault.reg =================================================================== RCS file: /home/wine/wine/winedefault.reg,v retrieving revision 1.61 diff -u -r1.61 winedefault.reg --- winedefault.reg 19 Dec 2002 21:16:56 -0000 1.61 +++ winedefault.reg 21 Dec 2002 18:14:56 -0000 @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ # [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug] # command line to start a debugger when an exception occurs -"Debugger"="winedbg --debugmsg -all %ld %ld" +"Debugger"="winedbg.exe --debugmsg -all %ld %ld" # to 0 if a message box has to be presented before running the debugger "Auto"="1"