[Megathread] Cursor layout and UI feedback

Now the undo/keep buttons are back at being overlayed, and there are no longer able to be in the breadcrumbs at the top of the file. Just as I was getting used to the undo/keep buttons being at the top and not having to worry about accidentally clicking “undo all”.

Can we seriously stop forcing UI layouts to adopt some new feature, then weeks layer undo it, esp with key features, why not just introduce a setting to optionally change a layout aspect instead of forcing the changes every time.

This is a very annoying regression. The undo all button is far to easy to click as when there are multiple files to review, the file pagination element is hidden when on the last file, which changes the undo/keep all position in the UI meaning you have to move the mouse to click the same button for a previous file.

I much preferred the persistent position of the breadcrumbs undo/keep controls. It was out of the way and it didn’t jump positions depending on the amount of files left to review

Give me back my side panel toggles. I don’t want your custom layout. I use the quick toggles CONSTANTLY and you just broke one of my most used UI components

I don’t think they removed the ability to toggle the side panel. They just moved the buttons to toggle things all over the place though.

still does not work. i will cancel my subs if won’t fix this

in version 2.6.20 the breadcrumb buttons are back.

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Model selection switches back to “Auto” in the latest preview version.

recording

Version info


Version: 2.7.0-pre.96.patch.0 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: c6712eb06f4e47a06a31f4d7adf484bfcbf61cc0
Date: 2026-03-19T17:53:17.088Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Nightly
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631

In version 2.6.20, the primary sidebar has an extra empty space at the bottom. It looks like there’s a reserved area that’s not being used by any UI element. This didn’t happen in previous versions.

I found a workaround today.

Here it seem you can actually download previous versions of Cursor:

I downloaded v2.5, uninstalled current version, installed v2.5, and set Updates to Manual under VSCode Settings → search by “update“.

All these breaking changes in the UI really affected my workflow a lot.

I will happily use v2.5 without updating for as long as it is supported, I really need to know that today my editor works exactly like yesterday.

Hello, my currently biggest pain point is that when i switch between layouts, it doesn’t remember their config.

For example, i wanted to have the chat maximized in the Agents tab, but be able to remove it in my editor tab, so i can use it just like that.

Currently, it just doesn’t remember it, when i maximize the chat in Agent tab, it preserves it in my Editor tab. I want to be able to save my layout for both, Editor and Agents mode and remove the Chat sidebar completely when i’m in Editor mode and make it remember.

Totally makes sense, this is my current (and honestly only) real problem with Cursor.

For now I sticked with v2.5 but I really hope if we make noise about this issue, the guys from Cursor team will consider fixing it.

Other than this it is a really great product I use daily for real work with huge gains in productivity.

Hope this issue will be fixed too :crossed_fingers:

Glad to hear i’m not the only one with this issue, spent hours trying to configure :sweat_smile:

Anyways yeah, really amazing work they are doing and hope we will see this fix in next releases, cheers!

and here we go again… are you not tired of messing with the layout buttons and icons? Why is the close chat panel looking like a “comment” icon now? You guys are really trying hard to upset your users…

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Yea, its annoying The new “comment/chat” icon was necessary because they had to merge two different layout systems into one. They had two functions that normally were being triggered by the same icon.

I sincerely and strongly hope that the close button (the “X” at the top-right corner) for each panel can be added back.

In my workflow, I open and close panels very frequently. However, the current method of closing the left panel—by clicking a button located far away in the unrelated top-right corner—creates inconvenience every single time I need to close it.

I have reported this issue many times already, yet each time I am only taught to use the panel toggle button or press Ctrl+B. The problem is that this design is extremely inconsistent with the habits of mouse users and feels very counterintuitive. I am certain that first‑time users would take a long time to figure out how to close the panel.

Honestly, every UI change in each Cursor update seems to make the user experience worse. In most case I do not see any necessity or benefit in these UI modifications—they feel like changes for the sake of change. It forces users to adapt to new but weird patterns and continually reduces the freedom to customize one’s working environment. This has made me repeatedly consider switching back to VS Code.

Return the display of the request cost by hovering over included with the mouse cursor. Without it it difficult to estimate the cost of requests and optimize work with the system.

In the Editor Window on Windows, the draggable area for moving the window is too small. The
search bar in the title bar takes up too much space, leaving very little room to click and
drag the window.

It would be great if the draggable area could be wider — for example, by making the search bar
shorter or allowing drag from a larger portion of the title bar.

This may be a Windows-specific issue, but it makes repositioning the window frustrating
in daily use.

よろしくお願いします

I would like to define custom themes for per project in the Agent Window, so that I have a visual hint which project I am working on.

I abhor the layout changes you guys make on updates and how menu-divy the settings are to adjust the layout. Cursor just auto-updated and the left panel moved to the right, the agent window moved from the right to the left, and the Settings to revert these changes are nowhere to be found (took me 15 minutes to find them).

Genuine question - has your frontend/design team heard of the phrase “don’t move the cheese” in design? You guys make massive cheese moves on updates and they’re extremely annoying. I was planning to revert my Cursor version again (for THE 3rd time) after this auto-update but I was able to find the settings finally after 15 minutes of searching and diving. Seriously y’all, this is really poor design work to KEEP moving the cheese massively for your customers - if you would keep the user’s layout the same or have a popup modal SUGGESTING a layout update, that’d be far superior to rug-pulling your customers.

I have two different windows of Cursor open and they have two completely different layouts. I spent time fixing my layout after an auto-update moved everything around, and after restarting the app, one window is back to the prior settings and the other (which I’m not trying to use right now) has a totally different layout…guys, come on! This is so frustrating.