The K Desktop Environment

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4.1 Menu, Tool Bar and Status Bar

(All) denontes that the operation will be applied to all sniffers or replayers if the shift key is held down while the operation is selected (but note that, for this to work on the menu, the shift key must be pressed before the menu is traversed - this is a bug).

The Monitor Menu

The Monitor menu contains common operations relating to the creation, deletion and execution of sniffers, and replaying log files. Note that most of these operations are also available on the toolbar.

  • Sniffers
    Display the currently selected sniffer or replayer.
  • Parallel
    Use this item to display a page which contains up to four parallel load histograms, allowing visual comparisom of network loading for different packet filtering settings.
  • Global Setup
    The setup page contains various global setup options.
  • Privileged User Setup
    This page contains the privileged user configuration options. Note that this icon, and the corresponding page, are only present if KSnuffle is running as root.
  • The View Menu

    The View menu contains functions that control the display or otherwise of various components of KSnuffle.

    At the bottom of the view menu will appear entries for each sniffer or replayer currently in existence. Selecting one of these will display the corresponding monitor.

    The Tool Bar

    As well as various shortcut buttons corresponding to menu functions, the toolbar also contains a combobox which can be used to select between current sniffers and replayers.

    For the Run, Halt, Freeze amd Resume buttons, the shift key applies the operation to all sniffers and replayers, as for the corresponding menu items.

    The Status Bar

    The status displays:

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