Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?
Cursor IDE
Describe the Bug
In Agents view the pane order is:
[Agents list] [Chat] [Code editor] [File tree]
I only want to reverse the last two panes:
[Agents list] [Chat] [File tree] [Code editor]
This is NOT about moving the file explorer into the left Agents/primary sidebar. Agents list and Chat should stay where they are. Only [Code] and [File tree] should swap.
There is no UI in the current Agents view to do this. View menu has no “Move Primary Side Bar” / Appearance option for this. Cursor Settings → Appearance has no sidebar location control. Right-click on the file tree does nothing useful. Changing workbench.sideBar.location, wiping %APPDATA%\Cursor, uninstall/reinstall — still the same [Code][File tree] order.
Steps to Reproduce
Open Cursor in Agents view (Window Layout = Agent).
Open a project so the file tree and an editor are visible.
Observe pane order: Chat, then Code on the left of the file tree, file tree on the far right.
Try to put the file tree immediately left of the code editor (without moving it into the Agents list sidebar).
Check View menu, Cursor Settings → Appearance, right-click on file tree, settings.json, clean AppData + reinstall.
Expected Behavior
In Agents view I should be able to set pane order to:
[Agents] [Chat] [File tree] [Code]
i.e. file tree directly left of the code editor. There should be a clear UI (or a working setting) for swapping only those two panes.
Screenshots / Screen Recordings
Operating System
Windows 10/11
Version Information
Version: 3.12.17 (user setup)
VS Code Extension API: 1.128.0
Commit: 0fb762053c34788bb7760d5673f8a6d4c8589d50
Date: 2026-07-17T02:53:53.006Z
Layout: IDE
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 40.10.3
Chromium: 144.0.7559.236
Node.js: 24.15.0
V8: 14.4.258.32-electron.0
xterm.js: 6.1.0-beta.256
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200
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Additional Information
Please do not treat this as “Move Primary Side Bar to the left / put Explorer in the left Agents sidebar.” That is a different request. This is only about the relative order of the code editor and the file tree inside Agents view.
Related but different: forum posts about Agent layout forcing primary sidebar on the right as “by design.” Even if that is intentional, there is still no way to get [File tree][Code] while staying in Agents view.
Does this stop you from using Cursor
Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor