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Pixelated UI on Mac OS X with development 1.99.0?

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Installed the development version of Wireshark on OS X 10.9. The UI looks very strange, pixelated. Icons, text, the whole window is pixelated and looks very strange.

Can I make it look normal, more high-resolution?

asked 20 Oct '14, 03:06

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edited 20 Oct '14, 03:06


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Do you have a retina display? Also, did you install the 64-bit version or the 32-bit version? Finally, can you try a 1.99.1-248 or later installer from https://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/osx/ when it becomes available?

It looks like we were missing entries in our application Info.plist that enable retina/HiDPI support. I added them, which should hopefully fix most of the resolution problems. Note that our toolbar icons are still at 1x resolution. I plan on fixing this when I have a retina display available for local testing.

answered 20 Oct '14, 11:56

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Gerald Combs ♦♦
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Note that our toolbar icons are still at 1x resolution. I plan on fixing this when I have a retina display available for local testing.

Going to flatten them out while you're at it? Jony'd like that.... :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

(20 Oct '14, 12:01) Guy Harris ♦♦

Hello, yes, a spanking new MBP 15". I have the 64-bit version installed. Tried the updated -248 but same issue there.

Displays: Color LCD: Display Type: Retina LCD Resolution: 2880 x 1800 Retina: Yes Pixel Depth: 32-Bit Color (ARGB8888)

(20 Oct '14, 12:39) Konstigt

Same here on MBP 15" Retina. No Retina support for Wireshark 1.99.1-303. Not speaking about icons, but also text!

(26 Oct '14, 22:57) aquapulco

After finding a version of the Xcode Quartz Debug utility that doesn't crash on my system I was able to run some tests. Wireshark compiled on the buildbot and linked with Qt 5.2.1 is indeed jaggy. Wireshark compiled locally and linked with Qt 5.3.1 looks fine modulo the 1x icons. I'm not sure if the difference is due to Qt 5.3 vs 5.2 or that we're targeting OS X 10.6 on the buildbot.

Note that this only applies to the 64-bit version. We're restricted to Qt 4.8 in the 32-bit version so it will likely never have full support for retina / HiDPI.

(27 Oct '14, 14:01) Gerald Combs ♦♦

We're restricted to Qt 4.8 in the 32-bit version so it will likely never have full support for retina / HiDPI.

Not that any 32-bit-only machines have Retina displays, so unless there's some perverse reason (32-bit-only binary-only or not-written-64-bit-clean plugins) to run the 32-bit version of Wireshark on your shiny new Retina Mac, that shouldn't be an issue.

(27 Oct '14, 14:09) Guy Harris ♦♦

After updating Qt on the builder and adding 2x toolbar icons, Wireshark 1.99.1-326 and later should mostly support Retina. Some of the other UI graphics still need to be updated.

(28 Oct '14, 10:40) Gerald Combs ♦♦

I run Wireshark version Version 1.12.2 (v1.12.2-0-g898fa22 from master-1.12) (64 bits) and have blurry display on my Macbook Pro 15 (retina display), see below. Same problem with 1.99.0 development release.

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(09 Dec '14, 08:31) Frédéric

Note that only the 1.99.1-326 or later versions have been fixed.

(09 Dec '14, 08:50) grahamb ♦

Confirmed. Works on Retina Display. Mac 10.10

(31 Jan '15, 16:38) Aaron Lewis

Note also that the only releases that default to being "native", in the sense that they don't go through X11, are the 1.99.x development releases, where the Qt version is the only or the default version. The 1.12.x packages either default to or only include the GTK+ version, which uses X11; those aren't as easy to make Retina-capable, as the only Mac-aware part of the low-level GUI code is the X11 server.

(31 Jan '15, 16:55) Guy Harris ♦♦
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