'BadWindow' when executing nitrogen right after xrandr

[cmosig]

I am getting the following error:

The program 'nitrogen' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 205 error_code 3 request_code 20 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

when executing nitrogen --head=1 --set-scaled path

This line is executed right after enabling the respective screen using xrandr (in a shell script). This error occurs consistently. If I wait another second after enabling the screen and then run nitrogen then the error does not occur.