No Terminal Split / New header options in IDE

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In 2.6.19 cursor IDE update today I’ve lost the Terminal ‘split/new’ icons at the top of the right pane. What happened there, is that deliberate as it’s not ideal?

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Can you give me new some more details about what you’re referring to here?

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Hi - I keep the Terminal in the right pane, next to Cursor chats in Editor mode. As of today I don’t see the usual ‘Split / New Terminal’ widgets at the top of the terminal, e.g. so it now looks like this:

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..before today and it looked like this (roughly, this is vscode but it had the split and + for new terminal rather than just the single + for new chat)

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version and platform info:

Version: 2.6.19 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 224838f96445be37e3db643a163a817c15b36060
Date: 2026-03-12T04:07:27.435Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.4.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

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I don’t really understand this, as in am I the only one using a Terminal in Cursor in that area of the screen and wants to do a ‘split’? I thought it would be a common thing but I might just be using the IDE is an unusual way. Where do people run their terminals, outside of Cursor I guess?

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Probably caught up in this regression?

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