Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Remote Desktop color palette problem

[Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maynard, Chris wrote:
> It seems that when running Wireshark 0.99.6 over a Windows XP Remote
> Desktop connection, there's a problem with the color palette, such that
> the text color is always white, rather than black.  While it makes the
> text hard to read on a gray background, some areas of the screen have a
> white background, making it impossible to read at all.  According to the
> user who reported the problem to me, this problem has existed for all
> Wireshark versions after 0.99.2.  He uses 0.99.2 without a problem, as
> far as the colors are concerned.
> 
> Attached is a snapshot of the Wireshark preferences dialog over a Remote
> Desktop connection, which clearly depicts the problem I've described.  
> 
> I don't know if this is a gtk problem or a Wireshark problem though.

Are you using 8-bit color?  If so, I opened a ticket on the GNOME bug
tracker about this a while back:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438652