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

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From: Jim Young <jim.young.ws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2026 19:01:52 -0500
Wireshark -o "gui.window_title:my wonderful title"

On Mon, Jan 5, 2026 at 4:54 PM Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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> Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com
>
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