Editor actions icon disappear

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Seems intro from Cursor 2.1

Steps to Reproduce

open any ts file, the action icons in editor title all missing by default

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.1.25
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 7584ea888f7eb7bf76c9873a8f71b28f034a9820
Date: 2025-11-23T04:45:23.529Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.2.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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Hey, thanks for the report. This is an intentional change in Cursor 2.1: editor action icons are hidden by default.

To turn them back on:

  • Click the three dots (…) in the editor title bar
  • Select “Configure Icon Visibility”
  • Check the icons you want to display
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this make many available action is hard to discovery

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Could you in future tell these in the release notes if you do these very opinionated changes and how to revert them? This 2.1 had this and the auto opening links at least.. Fearing what else one will find..

ref. How do I permanently disable the internal browser auto-opening? - Discussions - Cursor - Community Forum

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I will echo that this is a massive hit to discoverability. On top of that there are no settings that seem to control this:

  • There is no setting that can toggle whether icons are visible/hidden by default
  • There is no setting that lists which specific icons are allowed to be visible

Although I’d love to see this reverted to be visible by default, at minimum I would hope for a way to control this via settings.

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Hey there,

We did include this as a line in the changelog: Editor Title menu entries have been compressed into the show more menu.

You can change the icon visibility using the Configure Icon Visibility item at the bottom of the menu. We simply changed the default visibility for the icons — everything is backwards compatible.

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Hey Jeremie, you can control per-icon visibility using the Configure Icon Visibility item at the bottom of the Show More menu. Nothing is backwards incompatible, we just changed the default.

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Removing the icons was a very questionable move. Personally, I didn’t know what to do, it totally looked like a bug. Not only it was completely unclear how to bring the icons back, the mechanism of brining them back is mockingly inefficient: you have to make 3 clicks per icon. Once you toggle one icon, the configuration menu disappears. Perhaps you should have asked AI to create a config dialog :slight_smile:

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thank you!

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We need to a setting to show the actions by default

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With the "workbench.editor.editorActionsLocation": "titleBar" setting, the icon visibility is not shown. What I did was remove the setting, change the visibility, and then add the setting back in to see the actions in the title bar.

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We did include this as a line in the changelog: Editor Title menu entries have been compressed into the show more menu.

Even when I was looking for this entry in the changelog I wasn’t positive it was referring to the same thing:

  • Changelog: "Editor Title menu entries”
  • Context Menu: “Configure Icon Visibility”
  • VS Code: “Editor Actions”

you can control per-icon visibility using the Configure Icon Visibility item at the bottom of the Show More menu

To give background context, I’m an Enterprise Cursor user supporting multiple teams via an in-house extension. The Configure Icon Visibility context menu option isn’t useful because:

  • It requires the end-user to know that there is something missing.
  • It requires the end-user to take an action (can’t be controlled programmatically via our extension)
  • The end-user must do this for each editor action. This is important because we have multiple spread across different editor types.
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So bad design, please provide a setting to restore before behavior

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Who on earth wanted this?

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Yes, I don’t understand why cursor designers create such impractical features that make the IDE difficult to use.
lasttime hide the actvity bar, and last last time another thing.

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