Peter, Thanks for the info.
I am currently trying to debug a problem that only happens when a user is running two MS word programs on top of Wine, with my local Xorg server. A copy & paste between the two MS windows mostly works ... but once in a while will get confused. How hard would it be for me to describe my small local X extension in XCB format and get Wireshark to grok it? I esp. need to track the XConvertSelection process. Pat --- On 4/17/09, Peter Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- > Open Text Connectivity Solutions Group > Peter Harris http://www.opentext.com/connectivity > Research and Development Phone: +1 905 762 6001 > [email protected] Toll Free: 1 877 359 4866 > _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
