Multiple Cursor icons when opening projects with terminal

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Describe the Bug

cursor command (using zsh on macOS) adds a ghost icon to the dock if the Cursor icon is pinned in the doc.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Open cursor on macOS
  2. Right click the icon and select Options > Keep in Dock
  3. Install cursor command for opening projects from the terminal
  4. Use cursor to open a couple of projects

Observe: for each project opened with the cursor command, a new icon is added to the dock while the pinned icon (the one from “Keep in Dock”) is the only active icon.

Expected Behavior

Only the pinned icon is in the macOS Doc

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.2.4 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: a8e95743c5268be73767c46944a71f4465d05c90
Date: 2025-07-10T16:55:16.443Z (2 wks ago)
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0

Additional Information

macOS 15.5 (24F74)

shell zsh

relevant .zshrc

alias c="cursor"

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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