I assume this is not a bug, but simply Cursor Team decision, but why you are making such radical decisions to completely shut down a feature which some of were getting used for long time now?
I’ve dedicated all my Cursor IDE Layout configuration to Custom Layouts since I am constantly changing my working setup - sometimes I work on 34" monitor, sometimes on 27" and sometimes only on my 14" laptop. Based on that, I had 3 perfectly created custom layouts to fit my needs and was so happy with that setup.
Then, I upgrade Cursor to latest version and boom - those are randomly gone and now I need to rely on Agent vs Editor layouts as a year ago or something like that.
This is huge step backwards IMO.
Steps to Reproduce
Open Cursor IDE
Click on top right gear button to trigger Cursor settings
No custom layouts at all but only Agent and Editor layouts
Expected Behavior
Expected to see my custom layouts and be able to continue relying on those since all my working ways and habits around Cursor IDE were based on that.
As many others are stating, I really love Cursor and we are using it in my company with Cursor Enterprise plan. I am Cursor user for year and a half now.
Really don’t want to move away from Cursor, but things like this really push you in other direction.
wait you were able to have custom layouts? i’ve been scratching my head on how to do the following for weeks: in agent mode, I don’t want to see code at all; I only want to see the agent converation, the sidebar that contains the files/search function/git functionality and the terminal. was this possible before?
But there is no way to have custom layouts saved and with a simple click to switch from one to the other. This is not it and IMO this cannot be replacement for this feature at all.
I am 100% sure no one want to go and adjust manually how panels are positioned every time i switch e.g. from laptop to monitor.
It was possible, but not anymore since Cursor team randomly decided to remove it as they make other random radical UI/UX decisions throughout almost any new update.
@emi1699 you could align layout as you prefer and that save it as a custom layout with a name.
E.g. I had layouts called “Monitor”, “Monitor 34” and “Laptop” and I could open that setting bar in a top right corner and with one click on a layout get preferred layout - so, so cool feature but, again, Cursor team randomly decided to remove it.
@condor I’d say you are wrong about this being still possible as I’ve explained in my previous comment above. The point is not to be able to set up layout, but to have it saved as a custom, named one and to be able to set it by a single click in top right settings dropdown.
The issue with this is that anytime I press on a file in the sidebar, it opens it in the editor (that’s currently present in agent mode). What would be nice is that anytime a file is opened in Agent Mode, Cursor automatically switches to Editor Mode.
@condor Thanks for flagging my post in my own topic instead of having a constructive answer why this feature was removed and actually elaborate around it. And, maybe, at least rethink that decision and try to get it back.
Great way to treat people being loyal to Cursor for 1.5 years and being on Business Enterprise plan with your company
It is really frustrating that I can’t actually create a true custom layout like you can in vscode.
I want to be able to drag the different components to different spots and you can’t. Sometimes I need my terminal to sprawl across the entire bottom, sometimes I want a big chat window up top and the files it is editing below it. I really wish I could create true layouts for my different dev setups. Maybe a some kind of wizard that would pop up and in there you would drop each component where you want and then save it as a layout.
@Maxx_Pawl Well, some version of you have described was possible before they, again, randomly decided to remove it.
There wasn’t wizard or sth like that, but simply you could adjust layout as per your preference, then you could give it a custom name and save it. It would appear then in top right settings dropdown so with a single click you could have it. So in any given moment you could in less than a second switch to preferred layout.
Again, this was so so so cool.
And funny thing is that things like that are exactly where Cursor have advantage over Claude Code - providing such a great UI/UX solutions for people who care about visualization a lot and don’t like to rely only on simple terminal view like Claude Code one. But in order to make and maintain advantage in that direction, first step is to stop making radical cut offs and changes and instead to polish, “cherish”, improve exisitng UI/UX solutions making using Cursor IDE smoother and smoother. I could go all day long about this, but it’s pointless since they obviously don’t care
@condor You did answer it technically, but not actually because your answer is not about Custom Named Layout feature but only about possibility to arrange layout manually by clicking on various buttons to show/hide some panels - there is no option to create custom layout once, give it a name, save it and then with one click on it use it.
That was and is NOT still possible.*
I am aware the feature is gone and that we won’t get it back (regardless of many people in this topic agreeing with my opinion that it’s definitely useful and it should be brought back), but at least you could be transparent and say “yes we decided to remove this feature because of _____ and it is not available anymore and won’t be available ever again”. Statement “that was and is still possible.” is not correct.
Since you do have this forum for customer feedback, that’s the least we should expect from you guys.
Thanks and I hope we will get a proper response about this so great and needed feature.
