Sidebar position not persisted after restart

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Switching sidebar to Right is not persisted during cursor IDE restart. This is similar to the issue in the post below.

Steps to Reproduce

Steps:

  1. Click on “…” Change layout option in the top right corner.
  2. Change Sidebar Position to Right.
  3. Restart Cursor

Sidebar goes back to Left side.

Expected Behavior

Sidebar should stay on the right side.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.3.35
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: cf8353edc265f5e46b798bfb276861d0bf3bf120
Date: 2026-01-13T07:39:18.564Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.2.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

Primary side bar doesn't save "user selected position"
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Hey, thanks for the report. This is a known issue, and the team is already working on a fix. You correctly found the related topic.

There was a fix in December, but it looks like the bug is back. I’ll pass the regression info to the team for your version 2.3.35.

For now, as a workaround, you can set workbench.sideBar.location in settings.json ("workbench.sideBar.location": "right"), but it may also reset after updates.

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Thank you for the workaround.

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