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[BUG] Random Black Boxes, Black Screen, Waybar turns Black #1730

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@GingerBobRoss

Describe the bug

Good afternoon,
I am running into an issue on my system that I can not figure out what is going on or how to fix after several repair attempts.

I am having issues with random black boxes that only happens on my main monitor in a dual monitor setup.
I will randomly have waybar disappear and turn completely black, a small roughly 640x480 black box will appear in the middle of the screen or my main screen will turn black showing the cursor.
This happens quite a bit, but does not seem to happen when I am running windowed / fullscreen applications. mainly seems like something going on with an idle issue.
I have completely uninstalled all dot files that I could find associated with ML4W along with any or most of the Apps i was able to see from the install log.
I have reinstalled overwriting everything and I also did a new install replacing / and /boot (/home was not touched)
I disabled Hypridle as well incase this was the issue.
I am still working on a few adjustments, but I am wondering if this might be associated with either VRR/ HDR/ or possible DPMS.
One of the journalctl reports i read something along the lines of a class error with () which possibly could have pointed to a windowrule for disabling Hypridle on fullscreen, but my windowrules are default from when i checked in Hypr / ML4w configs:
``hl.window_rule({
rule = "idleinhibit fullscreen",
match = "class:^(.
)$"
})`

I am way from my PC, but I will provide a screenshot of what happens when I get home from work and will find the exact journalctl report i ran

Steps to reproduce

Let system go idle after either heavy / light use.

Waybar will turn black , black boxes appear or screen goes black showing cursor.
Screen will revert back to normal and apps flicker

Expected behavior

Idle should not have any black boxes or flickering

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