I was reluctant to bring it up with Valve because I wasn't sure if they
supported gnome specifically, but it looks like they do.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1504-QHXN-8366

Thanks, everyone.

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2/issues/420



On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpie...@mecheye.net>
wrote:

> 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.
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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> >
>
>
>
> --
>   Jasper
>
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