Cursor crashes when not focused

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

when I alt tab from Cursor and the chat is doing something, Cursor IDE stops responding and I have to close it.

Steps to Reproduce

open Cursor, any agent, ask it something in chat, involving reading and modifying files, alt tab, IDE stops responding eventually.

Operating System

Linux

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.7.33
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: Linux x64 6.16.7-200.fc42.x86_64

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Additional Information

Fedora, Hyprland

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

Hey, thanks for the report. We’ll investigate this.

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