Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] slow startup caused by splash_update?

[Jeremy Linton <jli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Morriss wrote:
> How are you accessing the system where you're running Wireshark?  ssh?
    It is a LAN connection, but its not over SSH. The machine wireshark is running on is a vmware guest. It's a little 
on the slow side, but generally unusable.

> Maybe Wireshark can/should disable the splash screen when run over ssh? 
>   ssh doesn't imply a slow connection but it's probably reasonably common.
    Maybe any kind of network startup should have the splash updating scaled back. Although at this point I guess most 
remote X traffic does flow over SSH. I guess you can detect remote connections via GdkDisplay->use_xshm or 
XShmQueryExtension(), detecting if they are SSH is probably a little harder.