Bug: cursor system-tray icon is invisible in dark-mode on Windows

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Cursor is failling to check the background color of the system tray area in windows - it is always using a black icon. In dark-mode, that means it’s invisible.

Steps to Reproduce

install cursor on a Windows in dark mode

Expected Behavior

Cursor icon should be white, not black, when the taskbar background is black

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

pic_2025-12-16_06.15.16_2426.png

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.2.20 (system setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: b3573281c4775bfc6bba466bf6563d3d498d1070
Date: 2025-12-12T06:29:26.017Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.17763

Additional Information

The invisible icon is to the left of the blue one in the screenshot.

Please send this bug to engineering so they can create a ticket for it, and please let us know what the ticket ID is.

It has come to our attention on this Forum that nobody is acutally recording the bugs we report!!!

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

1 Like

Hey there.

This has been reported before, and we are tracking it (bugs do get recorded :wink:)

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