# My Designers tool bar is giving me some issues (screen sharing) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition81, perspective\ **Created:** [October 30, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/my-designers-tool-bar-is-giving-me-some-issues-screen-sharing/111825 "2025-10-30T14:10:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![abrodowski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/34f0e0/32.png) [@abrodowski](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/abrodowski)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/my-designers-tool-bar-is-giving-me-some-issues-screen-sharing/111825/1 "2025-10-30T14:10:12Z")
Hi, I'm new to the controls industry and just starting to learn how to use Ignition Designer and its related components. I'm also relatively new to Linux, which adds another layer of complexity. I'm currently facing an issue where, whenever I click on any menu option whether it's File, Edit, or Project the toolbar redirects me to a screen selection prompt. I suspect the problem might be related either to the installation process or to the connection with the PLC. That said, I can successfully ping the PLC's IP address, so I know the network connection is working. However, I'm unable to launch the Perspective Workstation at all, which makes me think the issue could stem from a faulty or incomplete download. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm open to trying different installation methods to get everything working properly. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/5/1/5104c04578f3e43d2f3e8a77c73678cd5d4b6595.png) ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/4/f/4f3d8bc369cfdd755bf7c114ea67e68aff54a8a5.png) ---
**Author:** ![dkhayes117](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/dkhayes117/32/68344_2.png) [@dkhayes117](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dkhayes117)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/my-designers-tool-bar-is-giving-me-some-issues-screen-sharing/111825/2 "2025-10-30T14:21:35Z")
PLC connections would have nothing to do with the designer operation. Next, I have never seen that screen sharing popup before from the designer, it looks like your OS is doing this not Ignition. ---
**Author:** ![abrodowski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/34f0e0/32.png) [@abrodowski](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/abrodowski)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/my-designers-tool-bar-is-giving-me-some-issues-screen-sharing/111825/3 "2025-10-30T15:24:14Z")
Thanks for the insight! That’s helpful to know. Here’s the strange part: the screen selection popup only appears when I’m running Ignition Designer and click on any of the menu options like File, Edit, or Project. It doesn’t happen with any other applications, which makes me think something may have been linked during installation that’s triggering this behavior. It feels like the OS is responding to some event from Ignition Designer, but I’m not sure what would cause that. I’ll dig into my system settings and see if there’s anything tied to screen sharing or input capture that might be interfering. ---
**Author:** ![dkhayes117](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/dkhayes117/32/68344_2.png) [@dkhayes117](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dkhayes117)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/my-designers-tool-bar-is-giving-me-some-issues-screen-sharing/111825/4 "2025-10-30T15:31:03Z")
What OS flavor are you running? ---
**Author:** ![abrodowski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/34f0e0/32.png) [@abrodowski](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/abrodowski)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/my-designers-tool-bar-is-giving-me-some-issues-screen-sharing/111825/5 "2025-10-30T15:38:18Z")
The operating system is a KDE neon User Edition ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/my-designers-tool-bar-is-giving-me-some-issues-screen-sharing/111825/6 "2025-10-30T15:42:07Z")
See this thread for a workaround and an explanation: > [@Ignition 8.1.45 designer asking for monitor sharing](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-8-1-45-designer-asking-for-monitor-sharing/102767/3): > > 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) … If you're on 8.1.48 or higher you can also use this somewhat better workaround: > [@Ignition 8.1.45 designer asking for monitor sharing](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-8-1-45-designer-asking-for-monitor-sharing/102767/8): > > 8.1.48 is going to support -Dignition.synthetica.customXml=... system property that you can point towards a synthetica XML file, such as one containing this: \ \ \ which can be used to set the Synthetica.popupRobot.enabled property, as well as any other Synthetica UIManager property. I'm not sure if the popup menus appearing in random places are related to this or not.