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

[Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gerald Combs wrote:
> 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

Depending on the Windows version or the options the administrator has
set, 8 bit colour may be the maximum depth you can get. This makes just
about anything, not just Wireshark, using Gnome libraries newer than the
ones in 0.99.2 unusable.

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