Borderless Window in All the Mods 10

Borderless Window is a quality-of-life mod, not a gameplay one. It replaces the standard Minecraft fullscreen with a borderless fullscreen window. You get no new items, machines or progression steps from it.^[1]

What it does

Normally, Minecraft's fullscreen minimizes the game as soon as it loses focus. With this mod, the window stays put when you switch to another program, and other windows can be placed on top of it.^[1]

There is nothing to set up. Once the mod is installed, the window becomes borderless automatically when you go fullscreen, either by pressing F11 or by turning on fullscreen in Video Settings.^[1]

Who it is for

It is most useful if you play on multiple monitors. For example, you can keep a wiki, a video or a chat open on your second screen and click over to it without the game minimizing. If you stream or record while playing, this is a handy way to keep the game visible.^[1]

In this pack

The pack ships Borderless Window 1.21.1-1.7.5_1, the NeoForge build for Minecraft 1.21.1. It has been in the pack since 8.0 or earlier.^[2]

Things to know

• It works on Windows and Linux, using either X11 or Wayland. It is disabled on macOS.^[1]
• Borderless fullscreen can cost you some performance. You will always get fewer FPS than with a normal video-mode fullscreen. A bug in the window library Minecraft uses may also turn on VSync while the window is borderless, and the mod author says they cannot fix that until the library is updated.^[1]
• With many mods installed, the window may seem frozen on startup. The mod's author says this is default Minecraft/Forge behavior and not caused by this mod, so just wait for the main menu to load.^[1]

Unverified The sources I have show no quests, no ATM Star path involvement and no in-game guidebook for this mod, so I can't say anything about where it fits in progression.

Borderless Window is a window mod, so there is nothing to craft to get started. It replaces the standard Minecraft fullscreen with a custom borderless fullscreen, and that's all it does.^[1]

Step by step

1. Switch to fullscreen by pressing F11 or by turning on fullscreen in the Video Settings.^[1]
2. The window should automatically be borderless. The project page describes no extra setup step.^[1]

Why you'd want it

With the normal Minecraft fullscreen, the game minimizes as soon as it loses focus. With this mod, the window doesn't minimize when you switch to another program, and other windows can be placed on top of the Minecraft window. That's especially useful with multiple monitors, when you want to switch to a program on another screen.^[1]

Things to know

• It works on Windows and on Linux using X11 or Wayland. It is disabled on macOS.^[1]
• If the game seems frozen on startup and the window doesn't respond, wait until the main menu has loaded. The mod's author says this can happen when using many mods and isn't caused by Borderless Window.^[1]

Unverified The sources here show no in-pack recipes or quests for this mod, so this guide doesn't point you to any crafting steps or quest chapters.

Borderless Window isn't a content mod, so there are no machines, multiblocks, power, fluids or item automation to learn here. It only changes how Minecraft's fullscreen mode behaves.^[1]

What it changes

The mod replaces the standard Minecraft fullscreen with a custom borderless fullscreen. Normally, vanilla fullscreen minimizes the game as soon as it loses focus. With this mod, the window stays put when you switch to another program, and other windows can be placed on top of the Minecraft window.^[1]

This is handy if you have multiple monitors. You can keep the game fullscreen on one screen, then click over to a browser, a recipe viewer or a video on another screen without the game minimizing.^[1]

How you use it

There's nothing to set up. The window becomes borderless automatically when you go fullscreen, either by pressing F11 or by turning on fullscreen in the Video Settings.^[1]

Platform support

• Windows and Linux (using X11 or Wayland) are supported.^[1]
• On macOS, Borderless Window is disabled, so you get the normal fullscreen behavior there.^[1]

Performance and startup quirks

If the game seems frozen on startup and the window doesn't respond, just wait until the main menu loads. The project page says this can happen with many mods installed and is default window behavior, not something Borderless Window causes.^[1]

Unverified The sources don't confirm any in-pack configuration options, recipes, items or quests for this mod, so there is nothing pack-specific to adjust beyond what's described above.

There isn't much history to tell here, and that's a good thing: Borderless Window has stayed on the same version through the releases I can confirm.^[2][3]

• All the Mods 10 8.0: the pack changelog lists Borderless Window 1.21.1-1.7.5_1 as newly added.^[3]
• All the Mods 10 8.1: the mod list still includes the same version, 1.21.1-1.7.5_1, shipped as the NeoForge file borderless-neoforge-1.21.1-1.7.5_1-all.jar. The mod list has no newer version, so 8.1 didn't update it.^[2]

Unverified The mod's own changelogs for the shipped jar aren't stored, so I can't tell you what changed inside Borderless Window 1.7.5_1 compared with earlier versions, or whether the pack changes any of its defaults.