Been using Cursor for past couple days. I have update mode set to “None”. Then I open Cursor today and it only opens up the Agents Window (never seen it before, couldn’t even maintain my dark theme setting through the update). Very annoying. I have no idea where anything is and it is an entirely different program. I eventually figure out I need to click “Editor Window” to get back to what I am used to just an hour ago. But then I have to choose my project as well. So now just opening Cursor takes 3 steps instead of one, and another step if you include closing the Agents Window.
This is why I had updates set to “None” because of this unprofessional stuff. I have work to do and this is ridiculous to just have your tool force massive changes on you. Also there isn’t even an About page on the Agents Window to get the current version, so that just added to the confusion.
Is there anyway to automatically open into the Editor Window with the last project (like normal)? Or is the cursor team just going to gradually phase out the Editor Window like they’ve done with the legacy view, etc? (yes)
Please just leave the UI alone, or at least let us not update, and if we HAVE to update, then prompt us, don’t just change my settings and push the update anyways. You know there is some dev on the Cursor team who chose to force the update despite the Update mode setting. Very unprofessional, but it’s what I have come to expect from Cursor. You know who doesn’t do this: Copilot. Been using them for a couple months with some free credits. But I still prefer Cursor, especially for programming manually, and I have been using Cursor with no issues for past several days and remembering how good it is. But what Microsoft doesn’t do is just change the entire UI and core functions on you as a surprise, so that makes Copilot a lot better imo. Stability is something that should not be a feature, but just something you expect. Not sure why the Cursor team likes to self sabotage their product and betray their user base.
hey @MidnightOak, you can set a setting so that cursor automatically opens up the IDE at startup instead of the Agent window, mhm, tho this is an older screenshot, maybe you still have that in your setting, I don’t have it as of now (nightly build), tho it was there, you can check in your settings
It was there, I unchecked it, restarted cursor and it still opened into the Agents Window and now the setting is gone. I mean you can’t make this up.
I literally can’t even tell you what version I have installed because there is no About page from the Agents Window (oh it’s hidden behind the cursor icon no one would think to click because no company makes that icon interactable… smh. Everyone puts About under Help. This is not the kind of innovations people are looking for. This is just bad UI.)
Version: 3.5.33 (user setup)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: aac81804b986d739acab348ed96b8bea6e83cc50
Date: 2026-05-22T06:47:48.039Z
Layout: glass
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.8.1
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.1
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045
I asked Cursor directly lol :
Why you might not see it on 3.6.5
I checked your installed build (3.6.5). The toggle is still in the app, but the UI only renders when an internal flag passes (get when(){return E()}). In practice:
I’m pinging team about it, will get back with some answers!
Also the entire menu system is awful. You literally have to click “View” then click out and then click “Edit”. Unlike most programs allow you to click one menu item and then hover over the others and they automatically open up. Editor Window works like this. This Agents Window seems really unpolished and not production ready.
here’s the answer man.. about the rest, indeed, thanks for the feedback, I will also share all that with them, sorry again for all the trouble man
This is the solution for now. Thanks for passing things along. Cursor has made a pattern of stuff like this, so it’s not just an accident, but they way they do things. They have not learned. It was like this when they were forcing Agents layout over the editor layout, then forcing you out of the legacy view. Forcing you to use the new agents panel, etc. Just let us work and let us opt into features and changes as we see fit.
