Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Window placement on win32

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

John McDermott wrote:

> Hi,
> Sometimes I want to run two copies of Ethereal on Win32: on a 
> firewall, say.  What I want to do is have a script or desktop shortcut 
> to start each (or both) of the instances and place them in specific 
> screen locations. On an X-windows system I could -geometry to do the 
> placement.  How can I do that from Windows?  Is there some 
> command-line arg,  a wsh wrapper, or some other standard method I can 
> use?  If not, is there code I can add to ethereal to implement this?
The size and position of the main window is saved in the "recent" file 
at program exit, and read back at startup.

So if you start two instances of Ethereal, both will be placed at the 
same position and size.

There is currently no way to change this behaviour in the way you need 
it, without changing the code in some way.

As a tip to start experiments: see main_load_window_geometry() in 
gtk/main.c, where this mechanism is implemented.

Regards, ULFL