Primary Side bar Vertical?

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I’ve searched about this issue before, but literally no solution fixes it. Not even Cursor itself can manage to tell me how to do it.

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I hate this. This is the single most annoying thing I’ve ever experienced using Cursor. How the f can I turn this from the horizontal display to the VSCode’s vertical one?

I tried with workbench.activityBar.location and workbench.activityBar.orientation but nothing works.

edit: apparently it was added back in 0.48.1

"workbench.activityBar.orientation": "vertical",
"workbench.activityBar.location": "top"

This is what I have in my settings.json for it to work.

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Hey, in version 0.48, this was removed. There is currently no way to bring it back.

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Aww, man. Would’ve liked to, but oh well. Can definitely live without.

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Why was this removed? I will go back to the old version because of this change. Is there a github issue open for this?

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This is driving me absolutely insane and is annoying enough that I just reverted the version and will probably stop using Cursor entirely if the update gets forced, which in the interim I guess means I can’t update.

Absolutely hate this and that there’s no option to fix it. It doesn’t even display some items correctly (just shows multiple “user view container” ones):

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Also makes switching between panes way more annoying than it has to be. Forcing this with no option to revert it is mind boggling.

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This is one of those changes I feel are just done to annoy the community. The horizontal sidebar makes what should be one click, two clicks.

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It honestly does feel like it is a change done just for the sake of being different; especially since they removed the option to have it the other way.

Oh well.

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Fixed in 0.48.1

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Wow, great! Thanks a lot! :tada:

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Thanks! This is really practical as the horizontal display makes it hard to switch the tools.

I never had the display issues other had but now prefer vertical due to several extensions that use it

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Can someone pls explain where and how to implement “workbench.activityBar.orientation”: “vertical”,
“workbench.activityBar.location”: “top”

for a beginner on my cursor mac and I have the latest version.

Thanks in advance!

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Open the command pallette ( ctrl + shift + p on Windows. I think it’s shift + command + p on mac?), type Settings and then click on this: image.
(Typing settings.json and then pressing on Enter has the same effect.)

You can add them at the bottom of the file, on the last lines.

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Omg Thank you! :heart:
Cursor said that I had the latest version which wasn’t true even with the attempt update.
I went to https://cursorhistory.com/ to get the Latest download 0.48.6.

and I wrote “workbench.activityBar.orientation”: “vertical”
like you said in Open User Settings (JSON) and it worked.

If I had “workbench.activityBar.location”: “top” in there in the settings it didn’t work, so if anyone else have that problem on mac like I had, then don’t use that and only use “workbench.activityBar.orientation”: “vertical”,.

Thank you again! :grin:

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Much obliged!
Glad it worked. I am currently fighting to update cursor on my other laptop, too. It’s stuck at 0.47.8, but I’ll find a way to convince it.

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