Allow per-workspace or per-profile background customization

Ideas Feature Requests
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Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

Describe the request

I use Cursor with multiple AI persona profiles (via workspace
configurations), and I’d love to be able to set a different background color
or theme per workspace/profile.

Currently, there’s no way to visually distinguish which persona/workspace is
active at a glance. Being able to assign distinct background colors or
wallpapers to each workspace would make it immediately obvious which context
I’m working in, reducing the chance of mixing up environments.

Use case: I run multiple AI agent personas (secretary, technical lead,
finance, etc.) in separate Cursor workspaces. A unique background per
workspace would provide instant visual identification.

This is similar to VS Code’s “Peacock” extension concept, but ideally built
into Cursor natively.

Suggested implementation:

  • Add a background.color or background.image setting in workspace-level
    .vscode/settings.json
  • Or allow profile-specific theming in Cursor’s profile system

Operating System (if it applies)

MacOS

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Hey, thanks for the feature request. This has come up a few times. Right now there’s no native support for per-workspace or per-profile backgrounds, but there are a couple of solid workarounds:

  1. Peacock extension. You already mentioned it, and it’s honestly the best option right now: Peacock - Visual Studio Marketplace. It works in Cursor without issues.

  2. Native approach via workspace settings. You can set workbench.colorCustomizations in each workspace’s .vscode/settings.json for titleBar, statusBar, activityBar, etc. This works out of the box with no extensions.

Related threads for context:

I’ll pass your feedback about native per-profile theming to the team. No timelines yet, but votes do help with prioritization.