Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] unreadablity due to poor use of colours (Win32)

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:12:36 -0700
Stephen Fisher wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:02:10AM +1100, Louis Solomon [SteelBytes] wrote:
> 
>> just downloaded and installed latest release (0.99.5) on a w2k3 box 
>> that I remotly admin (via RDC).  can't use it though, as the latest 
>> edition (unlike previous ver of wireshark that I had on same machine) 
>> has really screwy colours like white on white.  (when remotely 
>> admining, I always use 256 colours for speed)
> 
> This is a problem 256-color mode using latest GTK+ libaries in 0.99.5.  
> A work-around is to install the GTK1 version of 0.99.5, which you can 
> pick at the beginning of the Windows installer.

It looks like the problem is still present in the latest SVN installer
(which uses GTK+ 2.10.9).