# Ignition 8.1.45 designer asking for monitor sharing

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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.

```python
from javax.swing import UIManager
UIManager.put("Synthetica.popupRobot.enabled", False)

```

> **[Synthetica - Java Look And Feel](https://www.jyloo.com/synthetica/customize/#:~:text=Synthetica.popupRobot.enabled)**
>
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