Annoying notification that I can toggle the sidebar with Ctrl+B appears each time I press on project tree view button

[lp1641]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

At the top panel we have button like project tree, git status, extensions, background agents and others.

Steps to Reproduce

When I click on project tree the notification appears at the bottom of the screen.
“You can toggle the sidebar with Ctrl+B or via Layout Controls in the top-right corner” and two buttons “Dismiss” and “Hide Sidebar”.
It’s easy to trigger this notification multiple times even if you’ve already dismissed it, it will appear again.
If you click on project tree button it will appear each time.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.7.33 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: a84f941711ad680a635c8a3456002833186c4840
Date: 2025-10-03T03:28:06.574Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

[lp1641]

Maybe something else can trigger this notification appearance because I saw it many times. But I’m not sure.
I don’t like seeing it multiple times even if I dismissed it many times before.

[deanrie]

Hey, thanks for the report. Does clicking the Dismiss button not help? Does the notification appear again? Also, please try turning off tips. Hopefully that helps.

"workbench.tips.enabled": false

[lp1641]

Hello. Thanks for your response.

No, dismiss doesn’t help.

Also turning off tips doesn’t help either.

Judging by its look, it’s something related to Cursor, not VSCode.

[deanrie]

Thanks for the info, we’re looking into it.

[Erik_Dakoda]

Yes, this is annoying the heck out of me too LOL

[lmb]

+1 still not fixed in nightly 2.0.0