Bug 5845 - Does not recognize keypresses and is unresponsive to Click START
Status: ASSIGNED
Alias: None
Product: Dungeon Defenders
Classification: Unclassified
Component: everything
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 major
Assignee: Ryan C. Gordon
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Reported: 2012-12-24 10:30 EST by Frederick Wrigley
Modified: 2013-06-30 09:32:53 EDT
11 users (show)

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Description Frederick Wrigley 2012-12-24 10:30:36 EST 
When the game starts, there is no response to keypresses to skip past the introduction, and the "Press START" does not respond to mouseclicks. Some buttons indicate that the mouse pointer is over them, but do not respond to a click. 

I understand the difficulty in porting this game; I'm happy enough to have another ***** game for Linux that I can be patient!
Comment 1 cinmay05 2012-12-26 06:13:58 EST 
Alt+ Tab to another application and then back sometimes fixes the problem.
Comment 2 James Le Cuirot 2012-12-28 17:53:39 EST 
I wonder if this is specific to window managers. I see this under XFCE. Alt-tabbing didn't help but not pressing anything at all until the actual game intro starts did.
Comment 3 Nathan Hoult 2012-12-28 20:33:47 EST 
I have the same problem on my desktop: Ubuntu 12.04 using Gnome 2 with no desktop effects. I can try a different desktop and I considered installing/compiling my own SDL2 lib and seeing if that helps.
Comment 4 e3k 2012-12-29 11:25:35 EST 
same issue here (gentoo/xfce).
after 20times i started it and stoped with alt-f4 it suddenly started to work. i did no changes to config.
Comment 5 Frederick Wrigley 2013-01-01 15:42:43 EST 
cinmay05, the ALT+TAB combo worked, with DD running in a window. Thanks!
Comment 6 Matt 2013-01-09 01:31:52 EST 
Same issue here.  Also seems to be hit and miss between launches.  Alt + tab doesn't do anything either.

Running Mint 14 with Cinnamon.
Comment 7 Ryan C. Gordon 2013-03-15 02:20:10 EDT 
Can you try this build?

http://treefort.icculus.org/dungeondefenders/dundef-linux-hotfix-03152013.tar.bz2

Download, unpack, and overwrite the appropriate files. Let me know if it fixes the issue.

Thanks,
--ryan.
Comment 8 kisak42 2013-03-15 13:44:57 EDT 
For me, the hotfix fixed a regression with compatibility to upsteam libSDL2 (unable to skip intro with upstream libSDL2), but it does not let me past the Press START scene. Cinnamon 1.6.7 over Gnome 3.6.2 base on Gentoo Linux.
Comment 9 Nathan Hoult 2013-03-16 18:55:31 EDT 
Thank you for looking into this.
Tried it twice with Ubuntu 12.04, Cinnamon 1.6 ppa and it still does not work.
Comment 10 David Cecilia Cantó 2013-04-01 11:11:55 EDT 
(In reply to comment #7)
> Can you try this build?
> 
> http://treefort.icculus.org/dungeondefenders/dundef-linux-hotfix-03152013.
> tar.bz2
> 
> Download, unpack, and overwrite the appropriate files. Let me know if it
> fixes the issue.
> 
> Thanks,
> --ryan.

This fixes the unresponsive keypresses/mouseclicks problem on a minimal Arch x86 system without window manager (just xinit running DD solely).
Comment 11 Jason 2013-05-11 16:02:13 EDT 
(In reply to comment #8)
> For me, the hotfix fixed a regression with compatibility to upsteam libSDL2
> (unable to skip intro with upstream libSDL2), but it does not let me past
> the Press START scene. Cinnamon 1.6.7 over Gnome 3.6.2 base on Gentoo Linux.
I had the opposite problem. Could not skip the intro videos, a very long blackscreen pause between the last video ending and the start screen showing up, then everything else worked.
I had told steam to install the game on my shared ntfs partition. After moving the game to the deafult steam location my home, I'm able to click to skip the intro videos, and the long unresponsive blackscreen pause before the start screen is gone.