Cursor greyed out after opening chat in editor

[jonwigham]

Hi all, I’m new to Cursor and I clicked the option to open the chat in the editor window. As soon as I did, the entire application greyed out and I can’t do anything. There’s nothing to click, and no keyboard shortcuts (other than alt+f4) do anything.

I can see very faint borders where the sidebars should be, but other than that, the app is entirely unresponsive. I’ve restarted the app and my laptop (Windows 11) multiple times, and it’s always the same.

[deanrie]

Hey thanks for the report. This is a known issue with the “Open chat as editor” feature - it breaks your workspace state, and a simple restart won’t fix it.

Since your interface is completely locked, try this:

Option 1 - open a different folder:

1. Close Cursor (Alt+F4)
2. Open command prompt (Win+R, type cmd)
3. Type: cursor C:\ (or any other path, just not the problematic project)
4. If it opens normally, the problem is with that specific workspace

Option 2 - temporary profile:

1. Close Cursor
2. In command prompt: cursor --user-data-dir=%TEMP%\cursor-test
3. This launches Cursor with clean settings

If option 2 works, you’ve got corrupted workspace data. To fix your main profile:

1. Close Cursor
2. Open %APPDATA%\Cursor\User\workspaceStorage
3. Rename or delete the folder for the problematic project (sort by modification date)
4. Launch Cursor normally

The team already knows about this bug and is working on a fix.

[jonwigham]

Hi Dean, thanks for taking the time to reply. I deleted the folders in workspaceStorage and relaunched, and it seems to be ok now!

I’ll be looking out for that bug fix!