Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] How to disable "no packets captured" dialog?
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From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:06:49 -0600
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 03:26:05AM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:

> That would certainly be less intrusive -- though I think the absence 
> of captured packets itself is a pretty good indication that no packets 
> were captured.

I think the goal of the dialog is to help the user figure out why 
nothing was captured, as it goes on to say:

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Help about capturing can be found at:

       http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup

Wireless (Wi-Fi/WLAN):
Try to switch off promiscuous mode in the Capture Optio

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The ability to not show that dialog again would be nice, and in a more 
general sense because that probably isn't the only dialog a user would 
possibly not want to not see again.  This could probably be stored in 
the "recent" file.