SSH remote connection in agents window not working

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Whenever I try to connect to my pc via SSH in the recent Agents Window (the new GUI in Cursor), the SSH is very buggy. It lets me connect to it successfully, but it doesn’t maintain the connection correctly. For example, I can view the files, but the terminal doesn’t show up. I can’t do anything. On the normal Cursor view (which is the old GUI, the fork from VSC) SSH does work, so it’s not a problem of any of my devices.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Open Cursor
  2. Open Agents Window if not already there
  3. Connect to SSH
  4. Enter your password
  5. See files (this works)
  6. See terminal (this doesn’t work)

Expected Behavior

Terminal should work.

Operating System

Linux

Version Information

CURSOR IDE 3.4.20

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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Hey, thanks for the report. This is a known gap in the new Agents Window Glass when using Remote SSH, the terminal and some features can be buggy. The classic view works fine because it uses a different SSH implementation.

We’re tracking this issue, but I can’t share an ETA for a fix yet. For now, the workaround is to switch to the classic view for SSH sessions when you need the terminal, use File > New Window or the old layout.

We’ll post an update in the thread once we have one.

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Thank you for responding! Sounds good.