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dimich

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Registered: 2009-11-03

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[SOLVED] wireshark-qt 4.6.5: turn off redesigned welcome page

In Wireshark 4.6.5 welcome page has been redesigned. Now there are animated "Tips and Tricks" and "Learn" widgets on the left side.
Changelog states: "This feature can be turned off via the settings dialog". But via what dialog? Can't find any relevant option in Preferences dialog, neither info on Wireshark web page.
Also tried to add in ~/.config/wireshark/preferences:

gui.welcome_page.sidebar.learn_visible: FALSE
gui.welcome_page.sidebar.tips_visible: FALSE

with no effect.

How to turn that redesigned welcome page off, i.e. remove "Tips and Tricks" and "Learn" without sources modification and recompilation?

Last edited by dimich (2026-05-02 13:26:37)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] wireshark-qt 4.6.5: turn off redesigned welcome page

There seems a whole slew of them: https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/ … cent.c#L92

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dimich

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From: Kharkiv, Ukraine

Registered: 2009-11-03

Posts: 633

Re: [SOLVED] wireshark-qt 4.6.5: turn off redesigned welcome page

There seems a whole slew of them: https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/ … cent.c#L92

Yes, but it seems they should be specified somehow else:

$ wireshark 
 ** (wireshark:64676) 15:32:23.011386 [Epan WARNING] /usr/src/debug/wireshark/wireshark/epan/prefs.c:4933 -- read_prefs_file(): No such preference "gui.welcome_page.sidebar.learn_visible" at line 6707 of
/home/dimich/.config/wireshark/preferences (save preferences to remove this warning)
 ** (wireshark:64676) 15:32:23.011433 [Epan WARNING] /usr/src/debug/wireshark/wireshark/epan/prefs.c:5019 -- read_prefs_file(): No such preference "gui.welcome_page.sidebar.tips_visible" at line 6708 of
/home/dimich/.config/wireshark/preferences (save preferences to remove this warning)

Upd: Options should be specified in ~/.config/wireshark/recent_common:

gui.welcome_page.sidebar.learn_visible: false
gui.welcome_page.sidebar.tips_visible: false

Note: after wireshark run, recent_common is re-generated, these lines are moved up with comments. Also other related options appeared in the file.

Marking as solved.

Last edited by dimich (2026-05-02 13:26:13)