Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Win95, Sqaures instead of english

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 04:45:12PM +0100, Graham Bloice wrote:
> You can supply the fonts to use from the command line with the -m and -b
> parameters for the medium and bold fonts respectively.

...which is better with a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, but
requires the user to do so every time they run the program, so a way to
specify it in a configuration file (e.g., a .gtkrc file?) - and to
specify it from the GUI (and allow that to be saved to the configuration
file) would be useful.

> These should be
> fixed width fonts and unfortunately for win32 users should be specified as
> X11-type names as shown above.

GTK+ 1.4 will, apparently, change the way fonts are handled (for the
Pango internationalization stuff), and that may also let you specify
fonts in a more friendly fashion than an XLFD blob of characters.