Screen not refreshing when second display has full-screen application running

I have several external displays that I connect to my laptop (800x600, 1660x1050). When I put an application, such as Totem, Pure Data or Eye of Gnome, full screen (via F11) in the external display, the display on the primary screen (my laptop) starts to act weird and not refresh properly. Examples:

Is there a way to fix this?

I have a Dell XPS 13 developer edition running Ubuntu 13.10 with Intel® Ivybridge Mobile graphics and Intel® Core™ i7-3537U CPU @ 2.00GHz × 4 processors.