Saturday, September 29, 2012

wireshark change menu fonts xquartz osx

  1. Edit the pre-gtkrc and gtkrc files included in the Wireshark installation. 
    • Open up these files in your favorite text editor, which are located inside/Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/Resources/themes/Clearlooks-Quicksilver-OSX/gtk-2.0
    • Search for the entry in each configuration file named "gtk-font-name"  
    • Set it to whatever font you want.  NOTE: OpenType fonts don't seem to display as well as TrueType fonts do, 
    • For this example, I've changed this value to "Verdana 10" from the theme default
  2. Enable Font Smoothing
      • Go to /Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/Resources/etc/fonts 
      • Adding the following text:
          <match target="font">
              <edit mode="assign" name="autohint">
              <bool>true</bool>
              </edit>
          </match>

  3. Restart / Start the wireshark

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is super useful. Thank you! Is there a .Xdefaults directive that will simplify this?