Hiding new UI elements

[damirka]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

New UI elements in the top bar and primary side bar appeared and cannot be removed.

Steps to Reproduce

Launch Cursor after an update

Expected Behavior

Right-click should allow un-toggling the last element from the panel so it disappears.

All new UI elements need to have a simple way to disable.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.0.43
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 8e4da76ad196925accaa169efcae28c45454cce0
Date: 2025-10-30T18:49:27.589Z (2 hrs ago)
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

[damirka]

Additionally I’d like to hide Agents / Editor panel as I never plan to use this feature and it is distracting.

[MidnightOak]

Yea, why did they make “Agents/Editor” look like a menu item. “File” is traditionally always the furthest left menu item, now you have two more to the left that aren’t even menus. Very bad UI. I would be very surprised if they keep it there. The status bar is a more fitting place or just put it under “View” menu item like every other program.

[sanjeed5]

Thanks for the feedback, I’ve passed it on to the team