User Interface
3.4. The Menu
The Ethereal menu sits on top of the Ethereal window. An example is shown in Figure 3.2, “The Menu”.
Note!
Menu items will be greyed out if the corresponding feature isn't available. For ex- ample, you cannot save a capture file if you didn't capture or load any data before.
Figure 3.2. The Menu
It contains the following items:
File | This menu contains items to open and merge capture files, save / print / export |
| capture files in whole or in part, and to quit from Ethereal. See Section 3.5, “The |
| "File" menu”. |
Edit | This menu contains items to find a packet, time reference or mark one or more |
| packets, set your preferences, (cut, copy, and paste are not presently implemented). |
| See Section 3.6, “The "Edit" menu”. |
View | This menu controls the display of the captured data, including the colorization of |
| packets, zooming the font, show a packet in a separate window, expand and col- |
| lapse trees in packet details, .... See Section 3.7, “The "View" menu”. |
Go | This menu contains items to go to a specific packet. See Section 3.8, “The "Go" |
| menu”. |
Capture | This menu allows you to start and stop captures and to edit capture filters. See Sec- |
| tion 3.9, “The "Capture" menu”. |
Analyze | This menu contains items to manipulate display filters, enable or disable the dis- |
| section of protocols, configure user specified decodes and follow a TCP stream. |
| See Section 3.10, “The "Analyze" menu”. |
Statistics | This menu contains |
| summary of the packets that have been captured, display protocol hierarchy statist- |
| ics and much more. See Section 3.11, “The "Statistics" menu”. |
Help | This menu contains items to help the user, like access to some basic help, a list of |
| the supported protocols, manual pages, online access to some of the webpages, and |
| the usual about dialog. See Section 3.12, “The "Help" menu”. |
Each of these menu items is described in more detail in the sections that follow.
Tip!
You can access menu items directly or by pressing the corresponding accelerator keys, which are shown at the right side of the menu. For example, you can press the Control (or Strg in German) and the K keys together to open the capture dialog.
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