Re: "force quit" dialog popping up during certain activities

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

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 <strattonbrazil 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 <jstpierre 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 <drago01 gmail com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Rui Tiago Cação Matos
> > > <tiagomatos gmail com> wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Josh Stratton
> > > > <strattonbrazil 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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  Jasper