# Ignition 8.1.45 designer asking for monitor sharing

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**Created:** [February 24, 2025, 8:08am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-8-1-45-designer-asking-for-monitor-sharing/102767 "2025-02-24T08:08:24Z")\
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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, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-8-1-45-designer-asking-for-monitor-sharing/102767/3 "2025-02-26T13:13:46Z")

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On a KDE Wayland session a screen sharing dialog pops up continually any time you try to access a menu item, and choosing the output to share does not seem to have any effect or "stick", preventing access to the menu.

As a workaround, the Designer can be started with `-Dawt.robot.screenshotMethod=x11`, which will simply cause the screen sharing attempt to fail rather than invoke this new dbus sharing request code path that doesn't seem to work on KDE.

[https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8307456](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8307456)  
[https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8280982](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8280982)

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