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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] white text can't view selections

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 15:28:26 -0700
Ulf Lamping wrote:
> jeff.krawczyk@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just downloaded and installed wirshark 0.99.5 onto my windows XP
>> machine that already had ethereal 0.99.0. i can launch wireshark, but the
>> text that should be vlack is white. This makes it impossible to read items
>> such as interface selection, because the background and forground text are
>> both white.
>>
>> When I start wireshare, the version disclaimer is also white text.
>> I've installed this same distribution onto another XP and Windows 2000
>> hosts and there is no issue.
>>
>> Anyone see this before?
>>
>> I've tried to uninstall ethereal and wireshare and winpcap but no luck. I
>> even verified in the windows appearance area that the text is not set to
>> white.
>>   
> Known problem, if you use a 256 color only display (e.g. terminal services),

There's an open bug for this on GNOME's Bugzilla at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438652