However, quitting and running the program again immediately is successful: For example, the first time I run Wireshark 1.99 on OS X Yosemite, I seem to get this error: It is as stated, a development release, so things are not perfect yet. That undoubtedly means that there are other posts covering this topic, but they may have low google sauce as I did not immediately find them. I did eventually find a comment on the release announcement for 1.12.0 (below) which confirmed that 1.12.0 is the last release that will require X11, as Wireshark is moving from GTK+ to Qt: Here’s the About screen for the 1.99 dev version: I believe that’s what we call conclusive – behind the scenes, the amazing folks who develop Wireshark have been working on a new native version for OSX. Mind you, this is the dev release, so maybe the stable release (1.12.0) is still running in XQuartz? I removed the 1.99 version and installed 1.12.0, and on running it I was prompted to tell Wireshark the location of X11.
I searched the interwebs looking for some kind of news release about this, and really haven’t found anything. In fact wait, Wireshark isn’t in its own window with its own menus it’s acting like an honest to goodness native application and using the OS X menu bar! Did Wireshark quietly go native? This does not look like the usual XQuartz menu. Wireshark 1.99 (Development Release) on OS X I recently reinstalled Wireshark on my home MacBook Pro and, oh, what’s this?
Still, at least it meant I still had Wireshark, so I was willing to tolerate the quirks of running Wireshark on OS X, not limited to the app running but not displaying the app window anywhere (supposedly a “feature” introduced when Apple changed how Spaces worked in Mountain Lion). This isn’t the sweetest of arrangements – truth be told the app looks clunky and, well, like it’s written using X-Windows for its GUI.
I must have been living under a deep sea rock or something because I have been running Wireshark for a while now on my Mac and since Mountain Lion was released, it has been necessary to install XQuartz so that there’s an X-Server running on the machine, and Wireshark then runs using X for its GUI.
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