Hm, that's extremely strange. It sounds like the game isn't sending PING responses anymore for some reason. Try filing a bug with Valve, I guess.
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Josh Stratton <strattonbra...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was able to ignore it on a previous release of DOTA 2 reborn, but it seems > they've done a major version update and instead of waiting seconds before > loading the game (where the dialog will eventually go away), it dialog seems > to stay up indefinitely to the point where I can get into the game and see > things moving around (albeit it with no mouse control). > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpie...@mecheye.net> > wrote: >> >> Unfortunately, with the way OpenGL works, it likely has to do >> intensive IO work on the main thread, texture uploads and shader >> compiles and such, since there's currently no way to not block on >> those. >> >> You should be able to ignore the dialog until the game springs back to >> life. >> >> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 5:32 AM, drago01 <drag...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > 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 >> >> >> >> -- >> Jasper >> _______________________________________________ >> gnome-shell-list mailing list >> gnome-shell-list@gnome.org >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > > -- Jasper _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list