I had an issue on the pi i was logged into remotely, had to do a force reboot and when i rebooted and logged back in with cursor IDE, it started showing the icons again. This isnt the first time it happened though. if there’s a setting somewhere I can change that would stop this behavior let me know.
Hey, this is a known intermittent bug on our side. Sometimes after an update, extension icons in the activity bar don’t load on startup. We’re tracking the issue, but I can’t share an exact fix date yet.
There’s no setting that fully prevents this. Next time, instead of a full restart, try reloading the window: Ctrl+Shift+P then Developer: Reload Window. That’s usually enough to bring the icons back.
If it happens again and Reload Window doesn’t help, let me know and I’ll add it to the ticket as an extra datapoint.
Hey @wayne123, this looks like a different root cause than the one in this thread. Here it’s only icon rendering, but in your case the extension host isn’t loading any third-party extensions at all, same as in your previous report. I’ve reopened your earlier thread so we can continue there with fresh logs: When CursorIDE up to 3.0.12 : show running extentions, is None
I’ve been experiencing this for months, and “reload window” always fixed it up til now. After upgrading to Version: 3.8.11, most of my 3rd party extension icons remain invisible no matter what I do. This only seems to apply to remote workspaces, they load fine on local ones. I also tried resetting view layout and restarting the remote cursor-server process.
Hey @Bennet_Huber, thanks for the update. Your case is different from the one in this thread. This thread is about an intermittent issue that gets fixed with Reload Window. In your case, the icons disappear only on remote workspaces, and Reload doesn’t help, so it’s a different root cause.
This is a known bug with Remote-SSH and WSL. The scheme used to load extension resources in remote sessions isn’t marked as CORS-enabled, so Chromium blocks loading SVG icons and fonts. This matches an upstream VS Code issue. We can reproduce it, and a fix is already prepared. It should ship in one of the next updates, but I can’t share an exact ETA yet.
Hey, thanks for checking in. The key thing is which exact case you’re hitting. There are two, with different causes.
To point you to the right place, can you confirm a couple things?
Are you working in a remote workspace (Remote-SSH or WSL) or locally? If locally, are the icons OK there?
Does Ctrl+Shift+P → Developer: Reload Window bring the icons back?
If this is an intermittent case on a local project and Reload Window brings the icons back, that’s the bug being discussed in this thread. It’s known, it’s being tracked, and there’s no exact fix timeline yet.
