Gnome; Remote Desktop prompt appears when changing workspace

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Unfortunately, disabling this completely breaks UI tests (in my case Java AssertJ Swing tests):

Caused by: java.awt.AWTException: java.awt.Robot requires your X server support the XTEST extension version 2.2
    at sun.awt.X11.XRobotPeer.setup(Native Method)
    at sun.awt.X11.XRobotPeer.<init>(XRobotPeer.java:51)
    at sun.awt.X11.XToolkit.createRobot(XToolkit.java:958)
    at java.awt.Robot.init(Robot.java:171)
    at java.awt.Robot.<init>(Robot.java:164)
    at org.assertj.swing.util.RobotFactory.newRobotInLeftScreen(RobotFactory.java:58)
    at org.assertj.swing.image.ScreenshotTaker.<init>(ScreenshotTaker.java:66)
    ... 21 more
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I have found the root issue, it is happen due to Chrome or Chromium are both not compatible with xdg-desktop-portal. You can try to uninstall those to test, if you won’t believe me. Thanks to ChatGPT I also found a solution for that
Please search ChatGPT for the below, and it will give you a guildelines, since there are many

chromium --disable-features=WebRtcPipeWireCapturer
chrome --disable-features=WebRtcPipeWireCapturer

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On Chrome open chrome://version/
Check for Profile Path /home/lin/.config/google-chrome/Profile 1 (Profile can be default or from 1 to many profile you have)

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Then each file will be like the below, update number based on your profile path

nano ~/.local/share/applications/google-chrome-profile1-no-popup.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Google Chrome (Profile 1 - No Remote Popup)
Comment=Google Chrome web browser for Profile 1 without Remote Desktop Sharing popup
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --disable-features=WebRtcPipeWireCapturer --profile-director>
Icon=google-chrome
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
StartupNotify=true
StartupWMClass=google-chrome-profile1-no-popup