3.2. Start Ethereal

You can start Ethereal from your shell or window manager.

[Tip]Tip!

When starting Ethereal it's possible to specify optional settings using the command line. See Section 9.2, “Start Ethereal from the command line” for details.

[Note]Note!

In the following chapters, a lot of screenshots from Ethereal will be shown. As Ethereal runs on many different platforms and there are different versions of the underlying GUI toolkit (GTK 1.x / 2.x) used, your screen might look different from the provided screenshots. But as there are no real differences in functionality, these screenshots should still be well understandable.