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Wireshark doesn’t find X11 (XQuartz-2.7.7)

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Hello

I upgraded my 10.6.8 MacBook Pro from 2009 to Yosemite (OS 10.10.1) and tried to start Wireshark 1.12.2 First I had to update my X11 which no longer works, so I installed XQuartz-2.7.7 I logged out and in but still when I start Wireshark, I get a dialog to find X11:

Choose Application - Where is X11?

I cannot find XQuartz-2.7.7 in my application list. The link was already set from /usr/X11 to /opt/X11 this wasnt the issue.

What can I do? How can I find the XQuartz-2.7.7 application to point Wireshark on it? The 'Browse' doesn't allow me to set it to /usr/X11/...

Thanks

frank

asked 11 Dec '14, 14:22

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This helped:

http://www.itechlounge.net/2013/10/mac-wireshark-wont-start-and-ask-for-x11-with-osx-mavericks/

I start firstly X11 with:

/Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS/X11

Then I just open Wireshark in my apps drawer and it will start normally. To start XQuartz-X11 I just did a symbolic link (or a little shellscript) to the app drawer.

answered 16 Dec '14, 12:34

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