Every update keeps breaking key bindings and latest one broke sidebar location

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Every update keeps breaking key bindings and latest one broke sidebar location.
I’ve checked the setting - it should be rendered on the right side, but displayed left.

Cry from the heart:

As a user I got frustrated so much that I deleted cursor and started using VSCode again.
Maybe new developers will only do directives to AI, but I’m used to code myself too. And having to search what kind of your new feature hot-key overridden my crucial hotkey that I can’t live without - makes me angry.
Like why don’t you keep VSCodes CMND+SHIFT+W to close all opened files?
I’m never buying subscription when I don’t have a stable environment.

Steps to Reproduce

Set you sidebar location to the right
Install update that was published 8.01.2026

Sidebar is rendered to the left, though setting is set to right

Expected Behavior

Sidebar should stay on the right

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.3.30
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: d1289018cc3fcc395487f65455e31651734308d0
Date: 2026-01-08T05:21:38.211Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0

Additional Information

I know that for most of the people it’s not a huge problem, but for me it makes cursor useless

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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yes, GUI changes are becoming ridiculous and annoying! Seriously, how can you change the GUI with every update? I want consistency. Stop changing the GUI all the time. Hire an UX expert that does not do experiments all the time. Seriously you seem to have no plan at all for the UX.

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These recent updates have zero respect for the end user. Before this agent layout was being forced and resetting back to normal was not being persisted. Now open cursor to see layout reversed, file sidebar is disabled, agent and chat sidebar are open by default, why? Why extra clicks? Who’s making these absurd UX decisions?

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Hey, thanks for the report. I understand how frustrating this is.

About the sidebar location issue:

This is a known issue. The sidebar can sometimes switch sides after updates. You already have the workbench.sideBar.location setting in JSON, but you also need to check the Agent Sidebar setting in the UI.

This setting works together with workbench.sideBar.location:

  • If workbench.sideBar.location = right, then Agent Sidebar should be left
  • And vice versa

After changing it, please restart Cursor and the positions should stay saved. Here’s a similar issue with a fix: workbench.sideBar.location: right, not respected after 2.3.26 update, even with --disable-extensions flag

About the hotkeys issue:

Could you share a bit more detail?

  1. Which specific hotkeys are getting reset? (for example, CMD+SHIFT+W, and which others?)
  2. Where did you set them, in keybindings.json or via the UI?
  3. Can you paste your keybindings.json content?

For CMD+SHIFT+W, in Cursor it’s assigned to a different command by default. You can rebind it via CMD+K CMD+S (Keyboard Shortcuts) to workbench.action.closeAllEditors.

Let me know if this fixed the sidebar, and please share the keybindings details.

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Thanks for quick reply, pressing Switch Agent Side button did fix sidebar location.

my main point of pain is CMND+I I’m using Trigger suggest all the time, but since AI started it’s integration in VSCode it always gets overridden by some next new AI super feature that I don’t need that much in my day-to-day work.

And the main point I’m trying to make is please don’t re-arrange stuff all the time. It’s like if every time you updated your OS keyboard layout would change - how handy would that be?)

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