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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] unreadablity due to poor use of colours (Win32)

From: Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:52:34 -0700
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:02:10AM +1100, Louis Solomon [SteelBytes] wrote:

> just downloaded and installed latest release (0.99.5) on a w2k3 box 
> that I remotly admin (via RDC).  can't use it though, as the latest 
> edition (unlike previous ver of wireshark that I had on same machine) 
> has really screwy colours like white on white.  (when remotely 
> admining, I always use 256 colours for speed)

This is a problem 256-color mode using latest GTK+ libaries in 0.99.5.  
A work-around is to install the GTK1 version of 0.99.5, which you can 
pick at the beginning of the Windows installer.


Steve