diff --git a/desktopenvs/hyprdrive/astro-menu/lib/border.py b/desktopenvs/hyprdrive/astro-menu/lib/border.py
index 52bc7d4..ab9d2ed 100644
--- a/desktopenvs/hyprdrive/astro-menu/lib/border.py
+++ b/desktopenvs/hyprdrive/astro-menu/lib/border.py
@@ -49,11 +49,24 @@ def _make_draw(border: int, radius: int, color, fill_bg: bool, glow: bool):
         inset = border / 2
         r, g, b = color
         if glow:
+            # The bloom strokes are up to 24px wide, so half of each spills OUTWARD
+            # past the ring. GTK clips a DrawingArea to its own (square) allocation,
+            # which along the straight edges trims that spill to nothing but inside
+            # each corner leaves the whole square patch outside the arc painted —
+            # solid red corners poking out from behind the rounded border. Clip the
+            # glow to the ring's own outer silhouette (the widget rect rounded by
+            # radius + inset, i.e. exactly where the crisp stroke's outer edge runs)
+            # so the bloom only ever reads inward and the card keeps a clean rounded
+            # outline.
+            cr.save()
+            _rounded_rect(cr, 0, 0, w, h, radius + inset)
+            cr.clip()
             for extra_w, alpha in _GLOW_LAYERS:
                 _rounded_rect(cr, inset, inset, w - border, h - border, radius)
                 cr.set_source_rgba(r, g, b, alpha)
                 cr.set_line_width(border + extra_w)
                 cr.stroke()
+            cr.restore()
         _rounded_rect(cr, inset, inset, w - border, h - border, radius)
         if fill_bg:
             cr.set_source_rgba(*FILL_COLOR, FILL_ALPHA)