Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Error msg in DOS box.

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 03:50:01 -0800
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 07:19:36PM -0800, J.Cobb wrote:
> I'm running Ethereal as a network monitor on a computer I use to share
> cable-modem with the rest of the network.  After running for a while a DOS
> box opens with the message:
> 
> "Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_text_size: gdk_nmbstowchar_ts failed".
> 
> This message repeats everytime a new line of text is displayed in Ethereal.
> It doesn't seem to interfere with Ethereal's functioning.
> 
> I should also note that I change the font to Lucida Console 8pt in order to
> display more data on the screen.  I'm wondering if this has anything to do
> with it.

Possibly.

The Win32 version of GTK+ may just be misbehaving here.  You'd have to
ask the guy who supports it about it; none of us are, as far as I know,
even remotely expert in the way it works internally.

> I'd also like to complain that my current capture and display settings are
> lost everytime I exit the program.  It would be nice if these settings are
> stored (along with the currently selected network device) as a profile name
> so I don't have to set everything again.

"A profile name"?  Ethereal doesn't have any notion of multiple profiles.

You *can* save at some (but not all) of the capture settings and display
settings in your preferences by, after doing a capture, selecting
"Preferences" from the "Edit" menu and clicking the "Save" button.