The chat closes when you click on the chat icon

Describe the Bug

The chat closes on an additional sidebar when you click on the chat icon

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Open the additional sidebar
  2. Add chat to the additional sidebar
  3. Click on the chat icon

Expected Behavior

Clicking on the chat icon on the additional sidebar opens the chat

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.4.3 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: e50823e9ded15fddfd743c7122b4724130c25df0
Date: 2025-08-08T17:34:53.060Z
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

When you zoom in on the interface, you can see that the close icon overlaps the chat icon

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

Hey, since you have show icons enabled on the sidebar, when you click the chat icon there’s a close (X) button for the chat. If you hover over the icon, you’ll be able to see it.

The problem is that if I click on the chat icon without aiming, 99% of the time, I close it instead of opening it. So I have to aim with the mouse to open the tab instead of just clicking quickly.

By the way, I didn’t turn on the icons intentionally; they somehow replaced the text themselves (perhaps the old configurations from VS Code were reinstated when Cursor was updated).
When the icons appeared, I thought it was a cool update because the text never fit, and only part of the tabs were visible, while the rest had to be searched for in the drop-down list. Then, when the text fade-out effect was added, even the text stopped displaying, except for the first few letters.

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