How do you change Minecraft from fullscreen to windowed?

Q: How do I change full screen to windowed mode?

Press Alt+Enter while youre playing a full-screen game to enable windowed mode. You can press the shortcut again to switch out of windowed mode and re-enable full-screen mode, too.

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Perhaps my memory is faulty, as I've just installed the game a few days ago, but for the life of me I can't seem to find any option to switch to windowed now that it is in full-screen. Nothing in launcher options or options in-game.

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F11 or F12 I believe will toggle display mode.

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for the life of me I can't seem to find any option to switch to windowed now that it is in full-screen.

Esc>Options...>Video Settings>Fullscreen (Picture), or as noted by others F11.

NOTE: Java Edition has a bug where, switching from Fullscreen to Windowed mode prevents the window from being resized. You can fix this one of two ways. Either close and re-open the client or install Optifine.

Does anyone know how to make Minecraft run in full screen mode?

My display is set to 1920 x 1080, and the game was able to run full screen a while ago, but, I forget what the workaround was - any ideas? I haven't updated my graphics drivers in ages, so, it wasn't a driver update that broke things.

Pressing F11 enters "full screen mode" but this only occupies a subset of the window.

I set the resolution to 1920 x 1080 in the launch options, but the window is still 1024 x 768 or something - I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.

I've tried:

Toggling "Fullscreen" in the Video Settings
Setting a resolution of 1920x1080 in the "Full Screen Mode" setting in the Video Settings menu
Settting a resolution of 1920 x 1080 in the launch options
Disabling Optifine and repeating the above
Disabling high DPI optimizations for javaw.exe
Pressing F11 to enter full screen with "Fullscreen" set to "On" or "Off"
Pressing ALT + Enter

I have Optifine 1.12 installed, but disabling Optifine doesn't fix this.

This worked a few weeks ago, but, like a fool, I do not recall how I managed to get full screen mode to take up the full screen.

How do I change full screen to windowed mode?

Press Alt+Enter while you're playing a full-screen game to enable windowed mode. You can press the shortcut again to switch out of windowed mode and re-enable full-screen mode, too.

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