Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] Re: Ability to specify window title bar?

From: Eugène Adell <eugene.adell@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2026 23:11:40 +0100
Hi Ben,

have you tried updating the Preferences (Appearance > Window Title or
Prepend window title) with the %C flag ? This should work when calling
wireshark from the command line, and a --capture-comment option)

For example: wireshark --capture-comment window1 ;  wireshark
--capture-comment window2 ..

Please have a look at the User Guide for more options or come back
here if it isn't clear enough (
https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChCustPreferencesSection.html#_appearance
)

regards
E.A.

E.A.

Le lun. 5 janv. 2026 à 22:54, Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking into running wireshark so that it reads from ssh pipe.
> This appears to work fine, but in this case, the wireshark doesn't know
> the port names (or even remote host), so if I launch a few of these, I
> lose track of what is what.
>
> I was looking for a cmd line option that would let me add something to the
> wireshark titlebar, but didn't see anything.  Is there some way to do this
> now?  Or, would this be a welcome upstream feature if we code it up?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
> --
> Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com
>
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