OK, thanks for the help!

yep, it works like you said.
can you explain why we need the second line there?
it would be better not to have to set the mode twice.

I want to be able to change to fullscreen mode while not defaulting to some random resolution. More specificly, I don't want the screen to change resolution when I switch to fullscreen. So if I'm using this, local w, h, fullscreen, v, f = love.graphics.getMode() love.graphics.setMode(x, y, true, v, ...

I use IntelliJ + the lua plugin.
I have a .bat to build everything and a shortcut to run it from the IDE (I tried to set the same thing in np++ but couldn't )
most of the IDE's features don't work with lua but it's still a great dev environment in my opinion.