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Minecraft doesn't use borderless fullscreen

Minecraft 17w43b changelog states that:

LWJGL 3

… The biggest benefit you'll experience is that fullscreen mode now defaults to borderless windowed, so that snapping in and out of fullscreen mode is very quick!

However that is not true and Minecraft still uses regular fullscreen.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open any application in a non-maxiazed window.

  2. Open Minecraft in fullscreen mode (you can do so by either pressing F11 key or "Fullscreen" button in "Video Settings").

  3. Use Alt+Tab to switch to that other app in a non-maxiazed window.

  4. Notice that instead of that application appearing on top of the Minecraft window, the Minecraft window minimizes and only the the non-maximized window shows.

  5. Repeat the same steps to reproduce above in any game or app, that supports borderless fullscreen. The application window shows on top of the game window.

Old description by @HalfOfAKebab:

"The biggest benefit you'll experience is that fullscreen mode now defaults to borderless windowed, so that snapping in and out of fullscreen mode is very quick!" https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-17w43a

The new borderless fullscreen feature is not actually borderless, it's just regular fullscreen. This results in delayed window switching (in fact, it's even slower than it was in 1.12.2), and the inability to screenshot with PrtSc.

In fullscreen mode, there is no way to take a screenshot without using the game's own screenshot functionality (F2). The PrtSc key simply copies a black image to the clipboard, rather than an image of what's shown in-game.

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Hmm, PrtSc works fine for me for taking screenshots now, though I believe it didn't before, and I can tab in and out just fine.

Tabbing works for me without crashing, however it is not actually borderless windowed as when I switch to my second screen, minecraft minimizes and tabbing back in also has some delay. Actual borderless windowed would not do that.
Screenshots with F2 work fine for me, Alt+PrtSc and PrtSc both have the result of your Alt+PrtSc.png

OS: Windows 10
Java 1.8.0_25, 64bit

Can anyone else confirm/deny? GPU model and driver version might be useful, as well as OS.

This happens to me as well (1.13 Pre-5)- I can get up to three-second delays when tabbing out of fullscreen and PrtScr only nets me the screenshots I'd taken before the current attempt (just now, I got a shot with no pause menu, but I'd tried that a couple tries ago). It's pretty glitched.

 

Windows 10, GTX 1060 (6Gb), Driver 391.24

It seems like they've changed something between when when I reported this bug and 1.13-pre6, because now trying to take a screenshot results in a different image being produced (see attachments). However, the problem definitely still occurs.

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HalfOfAKebab

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Low

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crash, fullscreen, fullscreen-mode, graphics, lwjgl, options, settings

Minecraft 17w43a, Minecraft 17w43b, Minecraft 17w45a, Minecraft 17w48a, Minecraft 18w01a, ..., 24w33a, 1.21.2 Pre-Release 3, 24w44a, 1.21.3, 1.21.6

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