How can I open the chat on the right-hand side by default?

[nklswbr]

Ideally I would like to have the chat tab next to the explorer tab, search tab and so on.

[litecode]

If you right click on the Activity Bar, there are some options like:

• Activity Bar Position:

  • Default
  • Top
  • Bottom
  • Hidden

• Move Primary Sidebar Right (or Left)

It seems like if you move the Primary Side Bar to one side, then the Secondary Side Bar (which the Chat is in) moves to the other side, and vice versa.

So it doesn’t look like you can have the Activity Bar next to the Secondary Sidebar (which the Chat is in).

I could be wrong though, perhaps someone else might know the way to achieve your desired behaviour.

[litecode]

@nklswbr ,

Looks like another user may have just found a way to do it:

Getting used to the orientation of the primary sidebar

Found a hack to get them both on the same side. Change the activity bar orientation to vertical Now you can drag the Chat from the sidepanel to the main panel Revert the activity bar to horizontal [image] Optional: Change the CMD+L Shortcut to not open the sidepanel anymore by adding this to keybindings.json [ // Open a new AI chat and close the sidebar { "key": "cmd+l", "command": "runCommands", "args": { "commands": [ "aichat.new…

[emmmmsss]

I managed to properly drag-and-drop the cursor chat to the left hand vertical panel. But when I go back to horizontal panel, then the chat bounces back to the right. I know in a previous version of Cursor, this worked. Also it seems now, that’s not a sticky setting. AKA when the application restarts or I open a new window, the chat goes back to the right-hand side.

What a pity.

This is my new version:

Version: 0.47.5 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: 53d6da1322f934a1058e7569ee0847b24879d180
Date: 2025-03-14T21:40:35.200Z (3 days ago)
Electron: 32.2.6
Chromium: 128.0.6613.186
Node.js: 20.18.1
V8: 12.8.374.38-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.3.0