UI constantly resets layout in Cursor 2.0

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

The chat interface does not maintain its width after restarting Cursor after 2.0 update.

Steps to Reproduce

Open the chat interface and resize it, then restart the ide and you will see that it resizes back to its default width

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.0.38 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 3fa438a81d579067162dd8767025b788454e6f90
Date: 2025-10-29T20:45:40.883Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

The sidebars and terminal keep resetting width (typically narrower).

Steps to Reproduce

I’m unsure how to replicate, because it keeps happening while I’m in flow trying to do something else.

It is incredibly frustrating.

It’s even more frustrating because this bug existed about 6 months ago.

Cursor team, can you please write tests for bugs you fix, so that you don’t reintroduce them later?

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.0.64 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 25412918da7e74b2686b25d62da1 f01 cfcd27680

Additional Information

@hmeng seems to have a variant of this issue: Potential layout issue?

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Cursor 2.0 Agent Panes Resizing Resets each time to toggle the view from agent/editor

Steps to Reproduce

Cursor 2.0 Agent Panes Resizing Resets each time to toggle the view from agent/editor

Expected Behavior

User resized panes should maintain state

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.0.64
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 25412918da7e74b2686b25d62da1f01cfcd27680
Date: 2025-11-06T04:35:14.424Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 23.6.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

The layout keeps changing each time i reopen the cursor ide the sized of panels that i left out with are not saved its annoying each time to resize everything how i like it

Steps to Reproduce

restart ?

Expected Behavior

The layout should be saved and restored on how it was left out when quitting the app

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.0.69 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 63fcac100bd5d5749f2a98aa47d65f6eca61db30
Date: 2025-11-07T18:21:29.650Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26100

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

1 Like

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

when I’m chatting with an agent, when it responds it widens it’s window, again and again, until it’s as wide as it can get, and the sidebar is way too narrow to use. it doesn’t matter how often I resize it, it just keeps self-widening, making it hard to use another agent in the sidebar.

Steps to Reproduce

type in chat and submit

Expected Behavior

it should NEVER auto resize a window, ever

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.0.69 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 63fcac100bd5d5749f2a98aa47d65f6eca61db30
Date: 2025-11-07T18:21:29.650Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.26200

For AI issues: which model did you use?

auto

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

1 Like

I’m still seeing the same problem. The panels in the Agents window in 2.0.75 constantly re-size. It is really annoying.

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The thing that confuses me, is I think it was 2.0.40 that it stopped being an issue for me. Why is it still an issue for so many people?

This is one of the things about bugs in Cursor, and the nature of how they affect different groups of people. I haven’t been able to use @Docs for over two months now. However, some people seem to be able to use that feature today. Other people have mentioned losing the ability to use @Docs just a couple of weeks ago.

That is extremely strange. Why would bugs affect people at different times, across different versions, especially when an explicit fix was made, IIRC, in 2.0.40? There is a level of robustness and consistency in design and implementation, that could alleviate these extremely strange bugs that appear to be very difficult to track down and resolve. It might also help prevent repetitive regression with each new version of Cursor.

Same here:

Version: 2.0.75
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 9e7a27b76730ca7fe4aecaeafc58bac1e2c82120
Date: 2025-11-12T17:34:21.472Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.1.0

It is annoying to work with.

I’ve also been experiencing this issue mostly with the File Explorer sidebar. I’m not 100% sure, but IIRC this started happening arount the introduction of Agents workspace.

Version: 2.0.77
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: ba90f2f88e4911312761abab9492c42442117cf0
Date: 2025-11-13T23:10:43.113Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.1.0

This is EXACTLY my issue, it resizes ALL THE TIME and I’m having this issue with the “file explorer” left panel, which is even more annoying since I’m only doing normal vscode workflow not even using much of the AI / Agent features.

MY ISSUE IS THE SAME: UI constantly resets layout in Cursor 2.0 - #10 by Cenay

The panel resize is a big pain. PLEASE FIX THIS.

**This is happening to me on version: **

Version: 2.0.77 (Universal)

VSCode Version: 1.99.3

Commit: ba90f2f88e4911312761abab9492c42442117cf0

Date: 2025-11-13T23:10:43.113Z (4 days ago)

Electron: 37.7.0

Chromium: 138.0.7204.251

Node.js: 22.20.0

V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0

OS: Darwin arm64 25.1.0

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++I am having this same issue, if any new file opens or any plan file opens, Panel will reset always, haven’t been fixed since Cursor 2.x version ! @deanrie

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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Under certain conditions, the left panel of Cursor’s IDE automatically resizes itself to 50%. Manually resizing it becomes tiresome after it happens multiple times in a session.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Manually resize the left panel to the size you want, let’s say 20% or so of the screen.
  2. Maximize the right panel (for me that’s usually Terminal) so that it fills up the rest of the screen.
  3. Open a file in the left panel.
  4. Observe that the third panel is opened properly with the file that was selected, but the left panel is now 50% of the screen rather than whatever size you set in step 1.

Expected Behavior

The left panel should always stay the size that I set it.

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.0.77
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: ba90f2f88e4911312761abab9492c42442117cf0
Date: 2025-11-13T23:10:43.113Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.1.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

1 Like

This is probably closely related to the bug that crashes macOS when coming out of sleep mode after grabbing 2x the available memory on the machine. My machine has 64GB RAM. Just before crashing, I’ve seen Cursor taking 105GB RAM. Every other app is paused… and there’s no coming back, even if you manage to Force Quit Cursor.

++ Same issue here. Always the file explorer left panel.

Operating System

Linux

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.1.39
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 60d42bed27e5775c43ec0428d8c653c49e58e260
Date: 2025-11-27T02:30:49.286Z
Electron: 37.5.1
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.19.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.17.9-arch1-1

This has been back for the past ~2 weeks or so.

Same for me. When I’m switching between projects, the UI resets to default widths.

Version: 2.2.20
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: b3573281c4775bfc6bba466bf6563d3d498d1070
Date: 2025-12-12T06:29:26.017Z
Electron: 37.7.0
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.20.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.1.0

Same at 2.2.43

Mostly my “Timeline” section is always fully expanded, and the file browser is super short
it doesn’t remember either that the Timeline seciton’s height, or that it was minimized

I wanted to add my latest experiences here. I, too, am now experiencing the “Timeline” section always expanding. It started within one of the recent updates, not sure which, as I thought somehow I was triggering the issue, but it is clear this is NOT something I am doing and the Timeline section is constnatly expanding to take up most of the vertical space in the left-hand panel. I prefer that my project panel take up most ofthe space most of the time, however fundamentally, the UI should not be messing with these panels automatically at all.

This is a basic QC issue. You guys really need a team, of at least a couple people, to be performing constant QC checks and maybe implement automated QC testing to prevent these kinds of issues from leaking through to your production releases. Its clear Cursor is about as vibe-coded as it gets, and that there is very little if ANY quality assurance checks on your releases. This is to the DETRIMENT of your users, and of all the issues you guys have right now, introducing some level of quality assurance is really essential if you guys want to build a reputation of anything other than: “Oh, yeah, Cursor is just vibe-coded junk.” Because that is kind of the sentiment that is seeping in here…the sheer volume of half-baked new features, buggy and forgotten existing features, and repetitive regressions lends to no other assumption. :\

Happens to me today, i have my file explorers on the left and AI agent chat on the right,
but when i reopen cursor today it swapped

File explorers on the right, AI agent chat on the left.
huh?