Agent Sidebar keeps popping from the right even after hiding it!

Bug Reports
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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

I can’t get rid of that Agents Sidebar in the last update! It’s hidden, but it keeps popping up upon hovering to the right side of the window. I have two screens, where Cursor is on the left (so, going from left to right goes to the other screen and pops up that very annoying window).

There is nothing on the window to control it. You can’t drag it, pin it, close it, or anything.

This is extremely annoying!!

Steps to Reproduce

Just open Cursor and disable the Agents Sidebar, then hover to its side.

Expected Behavior

Once hidden, it should remain hidden till being showed again. There should be nothing popping up upon hovering.

Operating System

Linux

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.1.26
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: f628a4761be40b8869ca61a6189cafd14756dff0
Date: 2025-11-24T05:39:06.655Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.8.0-87-generic

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Could you share a screencast / some screenshots?

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Thanks for the quick reply. Here you can see that the window is visible (with the “New Agent” button) despite the “right dock” button above it being disabled. This is because I went with the mouse to the far right, so it popped from the right side (ignoring the fact that it should not be visible at all).

If you need more clarification, let me know.

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Hey folks,

No responses here? Seriously?

Pretty annoying behavior of the ‘Agents Side Bar’, indeed. It must have a way to disable this?

If what my friend above explained is not clear yet, I have recorded a video showing it: Screen Recording 2025-12-01.... See how this annoying agent side bar keeps appearing when I try to scroll down/up on the chat screen.

Please give us a light. Thanks for your attention on this!

Regards,

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Very annoying. This setting does nothing:

cursor.windowSwitcher.sidebarHoverCollapsed

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I’m having the same issue. Incredibly annoying and nothing I’ve tried seems to work. It’s particularly annoying with multi monitor setup.

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Precisely my problem! I had to fix the stupid window and take space from my monitor to avoid this insanely buggy behavior!

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I will do that as well until the dev’s add a toggle feature for the hover. Let me know if you find any workaround in the mean time.

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Same issue here, feels like they keep trying push their new agent layout / way of working down our throat.. Looking forward for a solution to this.

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Pressing on “Editor” mode instead of “Agents” mode solved it for me.

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Dont use the button on the top right.
Change the layout in the Cursor Setting > Editor layout.
This should disable it.

(Cursor kept changing the buttons, so it can be confusing.)

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THANK YOU. This solved the issue.

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I wish cursor team wouldn’t keep changing the GUI like this, it’s pretty arrogant to say “we know best” and just change everyones developer setup, new features? sure - but make it optional and dont turn it on by default, it’s sending the message “we dont care about your setup and we know best so just deal with it” which is a pretty crappy message to customers.

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