Agent window width is VERY NARROW. I am using high resolution (4k+) and this latest update made the agent frame like 1/5th of the screen wide for the text.. even expanding the window to full width the text does not expand like it used to.. this is VERY annoying. Is there a way to revert it back to allow it to auto-resize to the width of the frame? Even the converation history does this, it’s very narrow and cuts off half the names of the conversations.
When we have ultrawide resolution and the agent window basically only allows for 15 words left to right it’s pretty insane. It should auto resize like it used to, like any other window does (like the code editor window); it used to do this but something changed in this 2.6 update
Steps to Reproduce
Use the agent chat.
Expected Behavior
Every frame auto resizes to the width , especially the agent frame.
Hi @f00z Thanks for reporting this.
Can you clarify whether this is the agent manager pane that lists all your open and prior agent chats, or the chat box? Please provide a screenshot if you can. Thanks!
It’s both, the agent chatlog pane, and the ‘chat history’ button.
The agent chatlog was fine before (where you talk to the agent.
Even the text input box at the bottom doesn’t scale width wise as it did before. it just has huge empty space on the left and right no matter how large I make the pane.
This forum does the same thing, the forum i’m typing in right now is in the middle of my screen but only uses about 1/3rd of the width and no matter how much i expand the width of my browser, it doesn’t expand the space i’m typing in right now, it’s the same kind of issue just to give you an example.
massive extra space on both sides which is frustrating.
The plan files do the same thing, not the markdown itself but when you do the preview or the view of the plan which is basically a markdown ‘preview’ it seems to word wrap about 1/3rd of my screen across even though there’s plenty of extra space.
That’s an unknown key in the json, greyed out. I tried it but didn’t do anything yet but i haven’t restarted.
It’s also SUPER LAGGY when the agent is working the rest of the program barely works, i can type but none of the popups work, opening files doesn’t work, preview doesn’t work, or it works but could take minutes to display – it never used to do this only started in recent 2.6 i think
Can you double-check that it’s your cursor user settings.json file? Do you want to paste a snippet of what your file looks like?
Here’s the prompt that I used in agent mode:
can you put this in my cursor settings?
"cursor.chatMaxWidth": 1200
It should apply immediately. If it does not, it’s a good idea to save the settings.json file and restart Cursor.
Regarding the performance issues, do you want to get started on the steps listed here, particularly the Memory related ones? Troubleshooting Cursor Performance
I know it’s a lot here but it helps to narrow down and isolate specific issues. Please restart your computer and make sure that Cursor is primary app open when running these steps.
The agent can’t help with the settings because i’m using remote-ssh, so i open the menu and go to open user settings json (control shift p, open user settings (json))
I put it in that file and it says it’s not a valid key “Unknown configuration setting” when i hover over it.
