Hi, I’ve noticed that the agent terminal is now read-only, and this has become a problem. Many times, the agent successfully starts a server, but it doesn’t kill the process when needed. Since I can’t run commands directly in the agent’s terminal anymore, I have to manually find the process running…

[image] Ric_M: Im on mac: For example, to test or invoke Cursor Terminal that Composer have access to, i would ask it to “Run pwd” The problem is we only have 3 choices: Ask (This have no access to terminal) Plan (This have no access to terminal) Agent (This opens Agent Terminal that are rea…

this is not working on Ubuntu [image]

this is a show stopper and blocker…. Also don’t reset user settings after an update. I set legacy mode in before the update, and after update the settings reset… this is too bad and making dev setups unstable and eating lot of time….

Cursor, why you did this stupid thing again? what the problem with you??? We already with community discussed about your fault but you did it again

@cdp @chand_priyankara @Aaa_Mmm [image] The Legacy Terminal option doesn't work anymore Bug Reports Describe the Bug Legacy Terminal mode won’t activate in Cursor 2.2, nor after rolling back to Cursor 2.0. Now it always opens that ■■■■■■ terminal in read-only …

This is absurd, I have been going through this for about a year, they finally fixed it last year with having legacy terminal in settings enable and now once updated to 2.3.x its doing the same old crap again. I have tried every possible thing and no matter what I do, cursor agent terminal is ALWAYS …

That helped me. “cursor.terminal.useLegacyTerminal”: true Add to settings.json, restart cursor :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Setting the Legacy Terminal Tool no longer fixes this issue for me either.

not again! this same problem every time.

Agents terminals are read only

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Artemonim (Artemonim) January 24, 2026, 8:35am 123

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Agents terminals are read only

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