Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug After the latest update, the right sidebar (where I have the Chat panel) can no longer be resized as narrow as it could last week. The minimum width threshold appears to have increased, preventing me from comfortably having tw…

Hey, thanks for the report and the video. This is an intentional change in the latest nightly. We increased the minimum width of the right sidebar to prevent horizontal scrolling of the chat tabs when the panel is narrow. I get that this is inconvenient for a two-editor-column workflow. You can cr…

Great, thank you for the response @deanrie I already created the feature request: [image] Allow configurable minimum width for the right sidebar Feature Requests Feature request for product/service Cursor IDE Describe the request Enable a configurable minimum…

I’ll see what I can do here. Want to keep this as flexible as possible

Reasoning here was there was some chat ui that broke at very small width and it was easier to just give it a min width than optimize for very small width

Hey @msfeldstein , totally understandable — taking the pragmatic route makes sense. Just to add some context from my end, though: my editor font size is 12px, and my print width is 80 characters. Before this change, I had the sidebar at roughly half the current minimum width and never ran into horiz…

Hmm the min width jumped from 300 to 400 so if you actually had it half the size something else is up

Hmmm, try setting the font-size to 12px and the print width to 80 characters to see how it looks for you at 300px sidebar width.

BTW, My computer is a MacBook Pro M4 16’’

Hi @msfeldstein , just passing by to see if there are any updates on this issue or anything I can do to help the team resolve it?

Right sidebar (Chat) can no longer be resized to its previous minimum width after latest update

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msfeldstein (Michael Feldstein) March 31, 2026, 12:20am 14

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Right sidebar (Chat) can no longer be resized to its previous minimum width after latest update

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