The materialise intro was driven only by the frame-clock tick, which stops
advancing when the compositor withholds frame callbacks (e.g. the bar restarted
into an idle compositor) — freezing it at t=0 with content stuck at opacity 0,
i.e. permanent static. Arm a GLib.timeout alongside start_intro() that
force-resolves the intro regardless, so content always appears.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>