I’ve had this persistent issue across a few versions of the Cursor editor. When I do cmd+shift+n, a new window does not pop up. It also intermittently fails to work when I use the File → New Window option from the task bar.
Closest I can find that has been reported is this: Cursor not opening a new window when launching, but this is not an issue during launch, necessarily. I have the editor up and running for a while and try to open a new window, but can’t.
If I run my command line shortcut to cursor ~/some-directory, it opens in a new window correctly.
Cursor info:
Version: 0.42.5
VSCode Version: 1.93.1
Commit: 001668006cc714afd397f4ef0d52862f5a095530
Date: 2024-11-14T00:33:36.512Z (1 wk ago)
Electron: 30.4.0
Chromium: 124.0.6367.243
Node.js: 20.15.1
V8: 12.4.254.20-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 23.6.0