Is it possible to enable these Source Control notifications? [image]

Set the workbench.activityBar.orientation setting to vertical and restart Cursor.

Thank you :pray:, this did indeed work. :+1: It’s interesting that the Source Control Notifications aren’t available for the horizontal orientation.

[image] michaelgartner: It’s interesting that the Source Control Notifications aren’t available for the horizontal orientation. Yep, that’s because setting it to ‘horizontal’ makes it use Cursor’s own custom UI, which was created when VSC itself didn’t have a horizontal activity bar orientati…

Can we have the badge on the source control icon, even in the horizontal setup. Find it quite useful and like better the horizontal bar for more spacing. By the way, thank you for your wonderful job on this product.

Is adding a comment here the appropriate way to add support for having source control notification work in horizontal mode? Use Cases: Notification is quick way to know whether I pushed my last commit. Horiz. orientation offers more horz. space for sidebars and main window.

The lack of notification in horizontal mode [is reported in other posts]: Source Control icon in the panel does not indicate about the uncommited changes VSCode traditional side panel option The horizontal activity bar should have the same badges as the vertical bar - #13 by pbechliv Show Git Pend…

Source Control Notifications

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wbtacc November 17, 2025, 4:27pm 7

The lack of notification in horizontal mode [is reported in other posts]:

Source Control icon in the panel does not indicate about the uncommited changes
VSCode traditional side panel option
The horizontal activity bar should have the same badges as the vertical bar - #13 by pbechliv
Show Git Pending Changes Count
Show git diff notification like this

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Show Git Pending Changes Count Feature Requests	2	502	November 17, 2025
VSCode traditional side panel option Help	4	1900	November 17, 2025
Show git diff notification like this Bug Reports	5	333	December 21, 2025
The horizontal activity bar should have the same badges as the vertical bar Bug Reports	10	848	March 24, 2025
Any way to get the notification count like VS Code Help	4	265	July 9, 2024

Source Control Notifications

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