On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Rui Tiago Cação Matos <tiagoma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Josh Stratton <strattonbra...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> I'm going to start investigating what criteria brings this dialog up, > > The dialog is triggered if the application advertises support for the > _NET_WM_PING protocol but then doesn't reply in time, see the wm > spec[1] . > > [1] > http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-latest.html#idm140200472543696 > >> but is >> there some way I disable this dialog? > > There's no supported way to disable it. Mutter uses the zenity command > to put up that dialog, so if you can hide that command from mutter or > make it non-executable, the dialog won't be launched but be aware that > this is an implementation detail and might change without notice so > you can't rely on it. > > Please get the application fixed or file a bug for mutter if you have > evidence that mutter isn't complying with the _NET_WM_PING protocol.
This sounds like the app (DOTA 2) is doing excessive work (i/o) in the main thread (like loading files from disk) and can't reply to the ping request while doing so because its stuck waiting for the i/o to complete. So you should probably file a bug on there github instance. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
