sleep to prevent racing condition

i also have some problem with my statusbar. whenever i start up, the background of the statusbar is flashing, with tiny tiny printed letters. it looks like some terminal output in the top statusbar. when i press print screen, this behaviour ends, and all is well. happens on every reboot. 4:51 pm This is a classic race condition — waybar (or whatever bar you use) is starting before hyprpaper or your wallpaper tool has fully initialized, so for a brief moment the bar renders against a transparent/unset background, and what you're seeing is the raw compositor output or a terminal behind it. The print screen bind triggering a screenshot likely forces a compositor repaint which "fixes" the render state — confirming it's a rendering/timing issue, not a config bug. Since your startup.sh handles autostart, the fix is simply to add a short sleep before launching the bar. Something like:
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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ source /home/poq/syncDir/secrets/toBeSourced/secretsAsEnvVariables.sh       # se
 hypropolkitagent &                                                          # authentification
 hypridle &                                                                  # idle management deamon
 hyprpaper &                                                                 # wallpaper
-nwg-panel &                                                                 # status bar
+sleep 1 && nwg-panel &                                                      # status bar | sleep to avoid racing condition
 nm-applet &                                                                 # network manager applet
 nextcloud &                                                                 # nextcloud file sync