Black screen on fullscreen with wayland

Hi,

On wayland, my screen will turn black when putting something in fullscreen mode. I tried with a youtube video, and with the firefox browser itself by pressing f11. Once fullscreen is exited, the black screen comes back after a few seconds, seemingly because the monitor has to boot back up again. On X11, fullscreen works fine. Is this a bug or is something misconfigured? I used to use gnome on arch, but just switched to plasma. I’m not super experienced so let me know if you need some logs from somewhere to diagnose the problem.

It seems to be caused by the “adaptive sync” setting in the display settings. Turning it off makes it work for me.

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I’m not seeing that at all in Display Settings. I would like to try changing that setting to see if I can finally use my Displayport over the HDMI without fullscreen videos going black.


This is what it looks like for me.

I have the same issue after updating my system, not sure if Plasma was updated, but NVIDIA drivers and kernel definitely have been updated.

I’m on EndeavourOS (basically an Arch), couple of details:

  • KDE Plasma 6.2.5
  • Linux 6.13.1-arch2-1
  • NVIDIA Driver: 570.86.16

Also noticed that it only affects my primary display (4K, with fractional scaling), even if the fullscreen window is on another display (1080p without scaling)

Disabling adaptive sync seems to fix the issue for me

I have the same problem after a recent update. It works fine at first, but after a few hours, I can no longer enter fullscreen. Disabling Adaptive Sync resolves the issue, or rebooting the computer temporarily restores fullscreen functionality with Adaptive Sync for a few hours.

NVIDIA Driver: 570.86.16

Operating System: EndeavourOS
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.13.1-arch2-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core Processor
Memory: 30,5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Product Name: B650 GAMING X AX V2

Hi - just so folks are aware: as mentioned in bug report comments like 498987 – Display turns black when attempting to screenshot with rectangular region and adaptive sync is enabled, issues with the screen blacking out when using adaptive sync will likely need to be brought to the folks who create the graphics drivers. Links to the sites for those bug reports are below:

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