Wallpaper only appears after 10 seconds or so

But sometimes it’s right away. And the wifi icon stays greyed out until I click on it.

I had this problem on Sonoma too, but ultimately it just went away.it really does not seem metal related, especially since I had the same issue on Sonoma and it went away.

But what do I know. I feel this should be quite easy to fix but I just can’t reproduce the steps to get it to load right away.

This is on a MacBook Pro 8,1. Anyone has one of these with sequoia on and where it works fine?