Black screen on full screen programs on second monitor

On my second non-primary monitor, the screen goes black whenever I open a fullscreen media. It comes back to normal when I close it with ESC or click or alt+tab to something on the other screen.

Applications where this happens:

  • Spectacle rectangular select
  • Telegram media
  • MPV videos
  • Okular
  • Chromium videos – they blink during playback, goes dark if paused
  • Firefox videos – this one is a little better; it plays fine but blinks for a second when exiting fullscreen

There are some instances where this bug does not happen, like playing a browser video (running, not fullscreen) and opening a telegram media. However the bug still triggers with a MPV video + telegram media, and many other “combinations”.

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KDE Neon is doing this for me. Anything that is made full screen via KDE shortcut, as well as attempting a screen capture via Spectacle made my 2nd monitor black out. An escape or repeat of the key shortcut brings it back.