Stuck running Terminal Commands (Any Fix for PC?)

Bug Reports
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Describe the Bug

Every time the terminal command is being ran it just gets stuck I have to keep pressing move to background and sometimes that seemingly solves the problem

Steps to Reproduce

Have Composer do a task that requires the running of a terminal command.

Expected Behavior

Not being stuck.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.2.1 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 031e7e0ff1e2eda9c1a0f5df67d44053b059c5d0
Date: 2025-07-03T06:16:02.610Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100

Additional Information

Just to let you know, I have very little programming experience. I’m mostly relying on Composer. This is a very small side project that has gotten surprisingly robust and it’s very exciting, but this problem is just slowing me down to a halt.

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Yes - Cursor is unusable

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I have the same issue on Windows 11 — console commands hang. The cursor keeps waiting endlessly for the command to finish, even though it has already completed.
A workaround is to press the “Move to background” button.

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just selelct the terminal output window within the chat panel as if you were going to type directly into it (which you can do) and hitting enter a few times gets it unstuck.