macOS Hebrew/RTL: traffic light buttons misaligned and unclickable

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

When macOS system language is set to Hebrew (RTL), the window traffic-light buttons (close / minimize / fullscreen) are not aligned correctly and cannot be pressed reliably.

The traffic lights appear broken/misplaced in the title bar, so the red/yellow/green buttons are hard or impossible to click.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. On macOS, set the primary system language to Hebrew (עברית) in System Settings → General → Language & Region.
  2. Log out / restart so the system UI is RTL.
  3. Open Cursor.
  4. Try to use the traffic-light buttons in the Cursor window title bar.

Observed: the traffic-light buttons are misaligned and cannot be pressed.

Expected Behavior

The macOS traffic-light buttons should be correctly aligned and fully clickable (close, minimize, and fullscreen).

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Screenshots attached showing the misaligned / unusable traffic lights with Hebrew (RTL) system language.

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 3.11.6
VSCode Version: 1.125.0
Commit: 499321504bbc2649b3148883f7b30fff8426c870
Date: 2026-07-08T21:40:28.046Z
Electron: 40.10.3
OS: Darwin arm64 25.5.0
macOS: 26.5.2 (Build 25F84)
System language / locale: he-IL (Hebrew, RTL)

Additional Information

This is a window-chrome / title-bar layout bug with macOS Hebrew (RTL). The traffic lights are not usable.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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This seems to be a real layout bug on our side. With the macOS system language set to Hebrew (RTL), macOS moves the native traffic-light buttons to the other side of the title bar, but Cursor’s title-bar layout doesn’t mirror to match, so the buttons and Cursor’s own controls end up overlapping. It’s tied to the RTL system language (not Cursor’s in-app language).

While we look into it, the macOS menu bar at the top of the screen still controls the window regardless of the misaligned buttons:

  • Close: File → Close Window (⌘⇧W)
  • Minimize: Window → Minimize (⌘M)
  • Full Screen: View → Appearance → Full Screen (⌃⌘F) — this also hides the traffic lights entirely
  • Zoom / maximize: Window → Zoom

You can also try turning on Settings → General → Layout → Title Bar, which switches to a title-bar layout that may line the controls up better.

Since you mentioned it’s not blocking you, no rush on your end - I’ll get this in front of the team. If anything above doesn’t behave as expected, let me know.