Integrated Terminal Text Disappears When Switching to AI Chat in Cursor IDE

Bug Reports
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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

I’ve noticed that the integrated terminal text in Cursor IDE sometimes disappears or turns blank when I switch focus to the AI chat (for example, when copying something from the terminal to the chat). The terminal output isn’t actually lost it just stops rendering until I manually refresh or clear the terminal.

Steps to Reproduce

Open a project in Cursor IDE.

Run any command in the integrated terminal (so that it has visible output).

Click into the Cursor AI chat or try to copy terminal text into the chat input.

Return to the terminal.

Observe that the terminal text disappears or is not rendered properly.

Expected Behavior

The terminal should preserve and display its contents even after switching to the AI chat or copying text from it.

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.7.52 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 9675251a06b1314d50ff34b0cbe5109b78f848c0
Date: 2025-10-17T01:41:03.967Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey, thanks for the report. The terminal rendering issue when switching to chat is new to us.

Could you share:

  • Which terminal profile you’re using (PowerShell, CMD, Git Bash, WSL)?
  • Does this happen every time or only occasionally?
  • Any extensions installed that might affect UI rendering?

Workaround: since this may be a rendering issue, try disabling hardware acceleration:

  • Launch Cursor with: cursor --disable-gpu

Let me know if the workaround helps. If not, I’ll pass this to the team.

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Hey, thanks for reaching out. I use powershell 7. it happens occasionally and not just while copying stuff to the chat but also when creating a new terminal window the content of the old terminal window disappears.

I will try your solution and let you know.

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I have tried your solution. Now it does not happen as often as it used to before but still the issue persists. Especially when the terminal is open and as soon as I open the chat the terminal text disappears.

5

Could you record a short video of the behavior?

6

You see it happens occasionally and hard to capture with a video

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This is how it looks like

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Thanks for the screenshot. This confirms it’s a rendering issue.

Since --disable-gpu only helped partially, let’s try a few more things:

  • Disable GPU for the terminal: Open Settings → search for "terminal.integrated.gpuAcceleration" and set it to off
  • Check for theme conflicts: Temporarily switch to a simpler theme
  • Update your GPU drivers if they’re not current

If none of this helps, I’ll escalate to our engineering team. Also, do you have any UI-related extensions installed?

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These are the extensions I use, I did the second step and my GPU driver is up-to-date. I don’t use any custom UI theme just VS code default dark modern.

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Thanks for the additional info, the team will check it.

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