Open Agents Window on Startup option is not working

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Open Agents Window on Startup is off. But every time I quit Cursor and open it again, the Agent Window appears instead of the IDE window.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Set “Open Agents Window on Startup” to OFF

    Close the window by clicking the red close button

Expected Behavior

Opens the IDE window

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 3.10.20
VS Code Extension API: 1.125.0
Commit: 23b9fb205fe595ea2be29da7214e19762d037fc0
Date: 2026-07-07T07:03:33.071Z
Layout: IDE
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 40.10.3
Chromium: 144.0.7559.236
Node.js: 24.15.0
V8: 14.4.258.32-electron.0
xterm.js: 6.1.0-beta.256
OS: Darwin arm64 25.5.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

5

Hey, thanks for the detailed report and the recording. I was able to reproduce the issue.

On macOS, the red close button doesn’t fully quit Cursor. It stays open in the Dock, and when you open it again it uses a warm start path that currently doesn’t respect the Open Agents Window on Startup setting.

Try fully quitting Cursor with Cmd+Q or Cursor > Quit instead of the red button, then open it again. After a full restart, the setting set to Off works and the IDE window opens.

Let me know if restarting via Cmd+Q helped.

6

Yeah, Cmd+Q seems to work as expected. Thanks.