Recently I started experiencing the problem of F11 not toggling the note list as the view menu indicates it should. Instead it toggles full screen on the window, much like the F11 behaviour in a browser.
I found some info in the forums about "isFullScreen":true in the .config\window-state-prod.json file causing this. I found that to be the cause and after deleting that file and restarting Joplin, the F11 behaviour was back to toggling the note list.
After some time the bad behaviour returned. I checked and there was still no window-state-prod.json file. I quit Joplin and the file was created with "isFullScreen":false. After restarting Joplin, F11 is still toggling full-screen despite "isFullScreen" being false.
I believe that isFullScreen:true in the .config/joplin-desktop/window-state-prod.json file just indicates whether Joplin was set to full screen when the program was last closed. That is so that when Joplin is opened again it opens full screen.
I have found that F11 no longer working to hide the note list is also happening on Linux (Debian 13.5 with KDE 6.2.6 & MX Linux 25.1). Even when the Joplin app is in focus the F11 key triggers full screen not toggle note list. This is a browser-style full screen in that the Joplin window goes full screen and the menu bar is not shown.
As a workaround I went to Tools > Options > Keyboard Shortcuts and moved the F10 and F11 shortcuts to F9 and F10.
EDIT:
From this post on Joplin's GitHub it seems that F11 will work and hide the note list if you are currently using the editor, otherwise it full-screens.
Thanks, I'll also change my shortcuts then. A pity as I bound an AutoHotkey script to F12 that would toggle them both by pressing both F10 and F11, so F10, F11 and F12 was a nice shortcut grouping. But It will still work for me as I rarely hid only one of the lists. I usually used F12 to toggle them both.
F10 and F11 are doing what they are supposed to on two Linux systems here. Toggle notebook and note list on both Mint 22.3 Cinnamon and Fedora Plasme 44. This is Joplin 3.6.14
Maybe the default key should not be F11, but something else? F11 is usually used for full screen. Use F9 instead? And use F11 to switch to full screen.
I'll repeat what I said on the related github issue:
The menu bar shortcut (View > Toggle note list) still lists the keyboard shortcut as F11 and that is what its listed as in the keyboard shortcut editor. I also don't see it assigned to any other functions in the shortcut editor, and I don't even see an option for assigning a keyboard shortcut for fullscreen mode, nor do I see an option for fullscreen in the view menu. This makes me think that this change was unintentional, and it isn't going through the normal shortcut system. F11 is used for fullscreen in Chromium-based browsers, which is what Joplin's underlying framework Electron is based on, so I would suspect that this is some kind of default/optional behavior that got enabled in Electron.