# My Designers tool bar is giving me some issues (screen sharing)

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/my-designers-tool-bar-is-giving-me-some-issues-screen-sharing/111825>\
**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")\
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**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")

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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):
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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) …

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):
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> 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: \<synth\> \<defaultsProperty key="Synthetica.popupRobot.enabled" type="boolean" value="false"/\> \</synth\> 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.

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