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.
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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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