You 're using Wayland, as you say, KDE Plasma, whose development lags behind that of GNOME’s. So that makes me wonder if it might act differently under that DE and Wayland.
Also, the ‘swoosh’ indicates a reboot is in order. 
EDIT: Have you seen this thread? No idea if it helps, but… Running Wayland on GDG (Garuda dragonized Gaming)