Every time I鈥檓 in Desktop Mode this pops up. It seems to be spawned by Steam Proton, though I鈥檓 not sure why since it happens even before I launch a game or software. Can鈥檛 figure out what exact process is running it. Hitting install either fails checksum, or nothing happens after it finishes the download, and then it just pops up again. Any ideas?
Open system monitor and inspect processes tobsee where doest it come from. You can also open terminal and type
ps -aux | grep -i wineThat should yeild some more info including full command line of Wine鈥檚 processes.
The pop up however runs always if Wine prefix doesn鈥檛 have Mono implementation installed. It can be Steam trying to perform some task while updating a game, but without additional info it鈥檚 hard to tell
Sorry for the late reply. I haven鈥檛 had time to try this 'til this morning. The results are that while I haven鈥檛 gotten the issue fixed, I at least know what鈥檚 happening now.
So what鈥檚 happening is similar to what you said. I have an older Custom Proton installed for some picky games, and its included Mono install is old. Desktop Steam doesn鈥檛 seem to like this for some reason and keeps trying to update the Mono installed, but this keeps failing for some reason. I tried messing with it but haven鈥檛 figured out a solution yet. I鈥檒l have to try more things later.
I don鈥檛 know about Steam/Proton trying to install Mono itself, but Wine definitely does that (and Proton is just Wine with extras and scripts)
At that point, I鈥檇 just locate which game it is and rename its directory in
compatdatathen removed the old one atfer confirming that it鈥檚 fixed. If the game doesn鈥檛 support cloud saves, you might want to find and move your progress to the new prefix.