Multi Color IDE when you have a few open

[cloudslayer (Taylor Graham)]

Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

Describe the request

I find that I’m using 4 to 6 IDE for all my projects. It starts getting messy which one is which one. It would be great if each new IDE had a diff color so you could quickly get where you are. Yes you could look at the folder but i’m talking to agents and bouncing around it would be nice.

[kevinn (Kevin Neilson)]

Hey! Great idea! You can do this today with workspace-level color overrides. Drop a .vscode/settings.json at the root of each project:

json

{
  "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
    "statusBar.background": "#2563EB",
    "statusBar.foreground": "#FFFFFF",
    "activityBar.background": "#1D4ED8",
    "activityBar.foreground": "#FFFFFF"
  }
}

You can say something like “Hey Cursor, add this to my workspace settings” - important to mention folder / workspace settings otherwise it could get applied as a global config which you don’t want.

Here’s two windows stacked on top of each other to get an example: