# Designer on Linux/Wayland requests screen share continuously

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** designer, ignition81\
**Created:** [February 26, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-on-linux-wayland-requests-screen-share-continuously/102927 "2025-02-26T19:04:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/designer-on-linux-wayland-requests-screen-share-continuously/102927/2 "2025-02-26T19:05:34Z")

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> [@Ignition 8.1.45 designer asking for monitor sharing](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-8-1-45-designer-asking-for-monitor-sharing/102767/2):
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> The Synthetica look and feel has some goofy fallback code path that uses java.awt.Robot in the course of rendering shadows or opacity or something for popup menus. You might be able to disable it in a startup script or something. from javax.swing import UIManager UIManager.put("Synthetica.popupRobot.enabled", False)

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