Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] text disappearing

[jim cromie <jcromie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hennessey,Sean wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm running Ethereal v0.9.1 (gtk+ 1.3.0 glib 1.3.2) on win95. Most of 
> the time when I try to type in info in the filter box at the lower 
> left corner of the screen, what I enter will not appear. I can blind 
> type in the box and hit enter and have the filter work, but it will 
> not show what I have typed. Sometimes it works fine, but most of the 
> time it doesn't. The same thing happens in the filters (capture and 
> display) dialogs from both the edit menu and the capture | start 
> capture. Has anyone else run into this? Does anyone know a way to get 
> it to display the text?
>
> Thanks
> Sean

Ive seen the same minor misbehavior, but was able to save a filter anyway.

do: capture, start, filter,

then try different combos of:  new, change, save

I think save, new  may be the answer.