WireShark (was: Spurious bad X_ChangeProperty and MappingNotify)
Peter Harris
pharris at opentext.com
Fri Apr 17 13:21:07 PDT 2009
Pat Kane wrote:
>
> I did not realize that WireShark could take apart X11 packets, how
> does it compare
> to xscope?
I haven't used xscope in ages. I don't know if modern xscope does
extensions.
The main advantage to WireShark is it shows network-level problems
(packet retransmissions, reset packets, et al) that xscope doesn't
(since xscope only works at the X protocol level IIRC).
The main disadvantage is that stock WireShark does not handle X extensions.
There is a patch to add extension support (based on XCB, so it should
stay as up-to-date as XCB is), but it hasn't been applied yet:
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2981
(I'd say "please vote", but they don't appear to have enabled voting...)
Peter Harris
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