Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug When using “window.titleBarStyle”: “custom” (the default), the window title only displays ${rootName} regardless of what window.title is set to in user settings. Steps to Reproduce Set window.titleBarStyle to custom (or leav…

Hey, thanks for the report. It looks like this currently works only in Editor mode. You can switch to it with Cmd+E. In Agent mode, the window.title setting isn’t applied.

No it is not working in any mode for me, it only displays the folder name which is very irritating. Please fix this.

It used to work but no longer does. Now I just see the project name and no path or filename despite custom setting (which is correct and still works on VSCode). It’s annoying enough that I stopped using Cursor for now. [Screenshot 2025-12-26 at 4.15.58 PM] [Screenshot 2025-12-26 at 4.15.40 PM] S…

edit: it did indeed fix it for me going into Editor mode

+1 Here. Pls fix :slight_smile:

[image] It works only in Editor Mode and only via the shortcut, not by clicking this button.

Custom titlebar ignores window.title setting

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msfeldstein (Michael Feldstein) March 17, 2026, 5:41pm 9

Will be fixed in 2.7, sorry

Window title is not showing

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Custom titlebar ignores window.title setting

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