For many versions (going back to at least 1.0), the fullscreen that I get from F11 is not usable because I can only look/turn 180 degrees total. If I keep moving the mouse right (or left) the view will stop rotating. I have assumed this is a feature.
The fullscreen video setting added in 1.4.2 does not have this problem and is fully playable.
The only reason this matters much is that switching in and out of fullscreen using the menu setting is cumbersome and the F11 shortcut would be very convenient. When I ALT-Tab out of Minecraft the fullscreen drops back to normal window mode without updating the fullscreen video setting to off. To get fullscreen back I have to toggle it off and on.
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Duplicate of MC-229.
This isn't a duplicate of any other issue I've seen, including MC-229. Others have reported MC crashing or not updating the menu, etc. Yes I have those problems but nobody has described the 180 degree view limitation. I don't have any graphical glitches, MC doesn't hang, I don't have any problems with F11 other than my character can only turn +90 and -90 in the horizontal direction.
Usually this problem occurs when the mouse hasn't properly selected the minecraft window, and will stop at the edges of the screen, resulting in limited movement. To fix one usually just has to open a menu (eg press ESC) and click on a button to properly select the window.
Interesting. If I press F11 when the MC window is in focus, I'm limited to 90 degrees in each direction. If I click (as to select the full screen window) then I can play normally. It is as though F11 doesn't maintain the focus of the window. MC will have focus but when I press F11 it doesn't have focus until I click again to gain focus.
I'm not sure if MC can maintain focus when I press F11 or not (that is, if Xorg will allow it) but I'd say this "bug" is resolved in that clicking to gain focus takes care of the problem.
I updated to Xorg 1.13 and updated my Nvidia drivers to 304.60 and Minecraft to 1.4.4 and the issue is still occurring.
To be clear, with F11 it is like I'm only turning my head and not my whole body. I can only look right 90 degrees and only look left 90 degrees.