# PLEASE STOP mucking about with the UI **URL:** \ **Category:** Feedback\ **Tags:** keybindings, layout\ **Created:** [January 20, 2026, 1:23am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/please-stop-mucking-about-with-the-ui/149338 "2026-01-20T01:23:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![samotage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@samotage](https://forum.cursor.com/u/samotage)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2026, 1:23am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/please-stop-mucking-about-with-the-ui/149338/1 "2026-01-20T01:23:35Z")
Every time I use Cursor, it seems that the user interface has been jumbled up. The frustration of finding where the agent mode is isn’t, the chat panel is on the left then on the right it’s gone. I can’t find it. Command + E works and then doesn’t work, and then sometimes only works in certain circumstances when I click a panel There are all these ridiculous icons that don’t seem to do anything There is all the spare space where the agent and editor mode used to be This is really frustrating and causing significant mental overhead to use this software. I know the Cursor team are trying to be innovative, however you’ve gotta be understanding that the people using it don’t want the tool to get in the way of their work. Continually shuffling around the user interface like this is making the tool more difficult to use that actually doing the work. Please have some consideration for your users and stop with the rapid development of the user interface. ---
**Author:** ![deanrie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/deanrie/32/1263_2.png) [@deanrie](https://forum.cursor.com/u/deanrie)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2026, 5:34am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/please-stop-mucking-about-with-the-ui/149338/3 "2026-01-20T05:34:09Z")
Hey, thanks for the feedback. I get the frustration, this is a known topic and there’s been a lot of discussion about it. The Cursor team already responded in a big megathread: [[Megathread] Cursor layout and UI feedback](https://forum.cursor.com/t/megathread-cursor-layout-and-ui-feedback/146790) Key points: - They removed the old agents/editor toggle and replaced it with customizable layouts - You can now save a default layout via the gear icon in the top right - The team is working on adding keybindings for quickly switching between views - They fixed bugs with the sidebar position and `Cmd+N` About `Cmd+E` and panels disappearing, there were a few bugs and they’ve already been fixed. To help more precisely: - What version of Cursor are you on? - `Cmd+E` works inconsistently. Can you describe exactly when it doesn’t work? Try setting up your default layout via the gear icon and saving it. That should help with the constant switching. ---
**Author:** ![samotage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@samotage](https://forum.cursor.com/u/samotage)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2026, 7:04am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/please-stop-mucking-about-with-the-ui/149338/4 "2026-01-20T07:04:34Z")
Thank you pointing out the gear icon, this may be helpful. We as developed build muscle memory memorising shortcuts, so when you take something away, and replace it with a shortcut i.e. Ctl + E then remove that, it becomes really disrupting. The version of Cursor was nightly, but I am changing this back to Default, the bow wave at the beta end is way too much for productivity. Usually I get an agent to deal with these things, and if found bugs in the UI today. It went and made a whole bunch of shortcuts, that by random application I managed to get my UI back to shape: **When you first open Cursor, run these in order:** 1. **Move agents panel to LEFT, code to RIGHT:** 2. **Show the agents list/sidebar:** 3. **If agents are showing as tabs instead of sidebar:** * * * ## **⌨ Keyboard Shortcuts Reference** | **Shortcut** | **Action** | **What It Does** | | --- | --- | --- | | `Cmd + Shift + S` | Toggle Sidebar Position | Moves sidebar from left ↔ right | | `Cmd + B` | Toggle Sidebar Visibility | Shows/hides the primary sidebar | | `Cmd + I` | Toggle Side Panel | Shows/hides side panel (agents) | | `Cmd + Option + S` (⌥) | Toggle Agents Sidebar | Shows/hides Agents sidebar specifically | | `Cmd + Shift + P` | Command Palette | Opens command search (use for “Switch to Agent Layout”) | Thanks, Sam. ---
**Author:** ![deanrie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/deanrie/32/1263_2.png) [@deanrie](https://forum.cursor.com/u/deanrie)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2026, 7:32am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/please-stop-mucking-about-with-the-ui/149338/5 "2026-01-20T07:32:59Z")
Glad the gear icon helped! And great shortcut list, I think it’ll be useful for other users too. About the nightly build, yeah, it did have a few bugs with the layout and title bar, but those are fixed now. The default channel is much more stable for day-to-day work. ---
**Author:** ![samotage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@samotage](https://forum.cursor.com/u/samotage)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2026, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/please-stop-mucking-about-with-the-ui/149338/6 "2026-01-22T21:04:36Z")
I used the gear icon yesterday, an attempt to rearrange my curse of windows, and it had. confusing operation. When in edit mode, which was the mode I wanted to get out of, all it would do would open the settings panel and had a very different behaviour than when it is in agent mode. I think it would be more helpful if this particular control worked the same no matter what mode the system was in. I noticed once I switched it back to agent mode with random commands and. Button pressing that there was access to the settings page within the gear icon menu in agent mode. Having it behave differently, depending on what mode the system is in seems to be a frustrating design decision, which could be remove by having the gear icon work the same no matter what mode it’s in. It’s like if you’re in a car. When driving on a normal two-way street, turning the wheel left turns the car left. However, if you go down a one way street, if you turn the wheel left, the car goes right. ---
**Author:** ![armeltalla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@armeltalla](https://forum.cursor.com/u/armeltalla)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2026, 3:30am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/please-stop-mucking-about-with-the-ui/149338/7 "2026-01-23T03:30:13Z")
Please bring back the hovercard at the bottom of the file that I used to navigate the changes the agent made. It’s so much worse now that it’s at the top. Is there any way to keep the old navigation? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/system/32/99069_2.png) [@system](https://forum.cursor.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2026, 3:30am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/please-stop-mucking-about-with-the-ui/149338/8 "2026-04-23T03:30:15Z")
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