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There is a related issue for multi contexts from a single window which may be of interest:

Feature request / discussion: multiple contexts for a window

along with a question on this forum:

Fullscreen window blinking

Hi. I’m using GLFW for a VR painting project at work. I use threads to async-load heavy 3D Models, with their own opengl context, created using an invisible window, as proposed in the GLFW doc. The temp windows are created and destructed in the main thread. It works well. But, on windows (10), if the main window (main thread) is fullscreen, there is a black blink when a temp window is destructed. There is no such issue on Linux. I traced it down to the call to win32 DestroyWindow(). So my qu…

I have an in-progress branch:

Commits · dougbinks/glfw

The functionality is mostly complete, but I need to update the docs and choose a better name prior to submitting a PR.