Hey, thanks for the report. The Agents Window taking focus on startup is current experimental behavior in Cursor 3.x, not a bug.
Main thing: you’re on 3.2.11 April build, which is pretty old. Support for --classic to override this routing was added in later builds, so the flag won’t work for you. Update Cursor to the latest version, then cursor . --classic should open the editor window.
What else you can do after updating:
In Settings > Features, turn off Open Agents Window on startup.
From the Agents Window, you can open the editor via Ctrl+Shift+N Open Editor Window. Both windows can stay open, and you can switch with Alt+Tab.
Hey, thanks for testing on 3.7.36 and letting me know.
The most reliable way to get into the editor right now is: open Cursor and go to File > Open Editor Window, or use Ctrl+Shift+N. One important detail: the window will open empty, without any workspace context. After that, go to File > Open Folder and open the folder you need manually. Both windows can stay open at the same time, and you can switch between them with Alt+Tab.
On the other two points, I want to dig deeper, so I need a bit more detail:
How is your cursor command installed? Is it a symlink from the AppImage, or did you install it via Command Palette > Install cursor command? On Linux, the AppImage cursor sometimes ignores some CLI flags, which could explain why --classic doesn’t work.
After launching, does the Agents Window actually steal focus at startup, or does the editor open but just not get focus?
The missing Open Agents Window on startup toggle in newer builds usually means the Agents Window shouldn’t open by default. So if it still starts focused, that’s exactly what we should look at more closely. I’ll log this for investigation, but I can’t share an ETA yet. Send your answers to the questions above and it’ll help us narrow it down faster.
