Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal hidden

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Carolina Gómez wrote:

> I am working using Ethereal but I don´t want Ethereal is visible. I 
> launch ethereal by command line and I would like to know if there is any 
> command in order to make Ethereal hidden (invisible by user)

It's a GUI application; making it hidden makes about as much sense as 
would making a Web browser completely hidden ("completely hidden" as 
opposed to "minimized").

If you want to run a capture that doesn't have a visible window, you'd 
run Tethereal, not Ethereal, just as if you wanted to download a Web 
page, you'd run a command-line tool such as wget or curl rather than a 
GUI Web browser.