Cursor IDE does not even start

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Hey, this is a classic Electron issue on Linux with Wayland. The UI doesn’t render and the window stays gray. I get how annoying it is to hit this right after an update. Since --disable-gpu and reinstalling didn’t help, we’ll need to dig a bit deeper.

Please send:

  1. Display server and DE: Wayland or Xorg? Which desktop environment (GNOME / KDE / Hyprland / other) and version? If it’s GNOME 46+, X11 is already removed, so that’s an important detail.
  2. GPU: which graphics card do you have? Output of lspci | grep -i vga.
  3. Launch log from terminal:
    cursor --verbose --enable-logging=stderr 2>&1 | tee cursor.log
    Share the contents of cursor.log. It usually shows where rendering fails.

Also try launching with these ozone flags one at a time, not together:

cursor --ozone-platform-hint=x11
cursor --ozone-platform=wayland --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform
cursor --disable-gpu-sandbox

If nothing helps, you can temporarily roll back to the previous version. Older .deb files are available at Cursor · Download. Install over the current one with sudo dpkg -i cursor_<version>_amd64.deb to confirm whether this is a regression in 3.3.30 or something in the environment changed.

Let me know what the log shows and we’ll go from there.