"Cursor Is Not Responding" constantly on Linux

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Hello, when using Cursor version 0.50.7 on my main Linux workstation, the application constantly freezes with a “Cursor Is Not Responding” message.
I’ve tested it on a Windows laptop and I don’t have this problem, so it seems to be particular to Linux (maybe?)…

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I did notice when this happens that the disk lights go crazy, and running a system monitor on the side confirms that it is writing to disk when it freezes.

Digging a bit more I ran this command to see where Cursor was writing:

$ sudo fatrace -c --command=cursor

And when the freezes occur I see many lines writing to ~/.config/Cursor/User/globalStorage/state.vscdb-journal

Having read some other posts mentioning that it may be due to my state.vscdb getting too large, I tried completely removing ~/.config/Cursor but the problem persists even with an 8 MB file. So that didn’t fix the issue for me.

This issue does stop me from using Cursor as it makes it basically unusable, and unfortunately I will have to cancel my subscription if I can’t get this issue resolved. :confused:
I do also have vscode installed on this same Linux machine and I never ran into this issue.

Any ideas?

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15 posts were merged into an existing topic: Cursor is not responding / The window is not responding Issues

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It would be nice if the Cursor team could look into this, as it’s a very serious issue.

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thanks for your effort!
@cursor team: this really can’t be the solution for paying customers.

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Hey everyone, I’ve flagged a ticket internally for this and I’m hopeful we can get this resolved soon.

Appreciate the efforts in working around this in lieu of a solution for us so far :folded_hands:

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Thanks @danperks

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Using this thread moving forward: