The ui buttons in the top right corner changed completely, and the chat window toggle button disappeared. I now need to make a lot of clicks to make it open/close or use a hokey combination, which isn’t convenient. You made my work much slower. Why, why, WHY did you do this?
And it’s not just in Agent mode, now it’s in every layout, no matter what I choose: Editor, Agent, etc. it’s all the same, the chat switch button is just not there anymore.
This isn’t a bug. The chat toggle button was removed on purpose in favor of customizable layouts. Lee from the Cursor team explained the change here: [Megathread] Cursor layout and UI feedback
How to open and close chat now:
Use hotkeys: Cmd+I or Cmd+L to toggle the Sidepanel
Cmd+E to toggle the Agent layout
Customize your layout via the gear icon in the top-right corner
The team is working on adding more keybindings to switch between views. You can find all available shortcuts in the docs: Keyboard Shortcuts | Cursor Docs
Try Cmd+I or Cmd+L, it should be faster than a button. Let me know if that helps.
I was one of primary contributors to adopt Cursor to Chewy engineering, if you deleted my last reply but ignore the report I will be advocating to replace cursor to another IDE on our next review
Why would you do that!? I’m so mad about that I’m barely trying to keep being polite now! WHY WOULD YOU REMOVE THE PRIMARY FEATURE BUTTON OF YOUR APP? ARE YOU INSANE? Now I have to click twice to open the chat and twice again to close it. I’m not going to keep it open all the time and waste my screen space. It’s not comfortable to use keyboard to show and hide all the time, that’s the reason the UI exists TO FREAKING CLICK ON IT! Am I dumb or something? Please explain why would you remove the button in favor of the Agents SideBar button that’s useless.
okay I canceled the subscription since I’ve red multiple complains about that and it seems you’re not going to fix that anyway, and that loses any sense for me at this point
These are exactly my thoughts. Actually there still seems to be a layout that still has this button, even in the latest version, but I don’t know how to bring it back. The button disappears for good if you at least once click one of the new layouts in the top right corner gear menu. After that you seemingly can’t bring it back anymore. Maybe if you first install an older version so the old editor layout is back and then upgrade it and never touch the new layout buttons it will work? I will test it out
