diff --git a/src/desktop/WLSurface.hpp b/src/desktop/WLSurface.hpp
index 5f8da715..aa3600a2 100644
--- a/src/desktop/WLSurface.hpp
+++ b/src/desktop/WLSurface.hpp
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ class CWLSurface {
 
     // used by the hyprland-surface protocol
     float   m_fOverallOpacity = 1.F;
-    CRegion m_visibleRegion;
+    CRegion m_visibleRegion   = CBox{0, 0, INT32_MAX, INT32_MAX};
 
     struct {
         CSignal destroy;