Activity Bar position

[objc (Tanner)]

Regarding this setting, which is unique to Cursor, but duplicates/replaces functionality already present in VS Code…

Why does Cursor add a whole new setting for this, and then subsequently disable the ability to change the activity bar orientation from the GUI? Seems needlessly obtuse?

In VS Code, this is how you change the activity bar position:

But in Cursor, those options are gone:

cc @deanrie

[deanrie]

Hey, thanks for the feedback, I’ll pass this on to the team.

[DaroMacs]

hi any news? still only showing default

[Barbazzo_Fernap]

Any news? This is an awful limitation that is forcibly imposed! For future reference use this in your settings.json file to fix this:
“workbench.activityBar.orientation”: “vertical”

[hmeng (Haris M)]

might be related Cursor activity bar can't be hidden