# Vertical activityBar orientation is broken

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/vertical-activitybar-orientation-is-broken/54621>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [February 25, 2025, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/vertical-activitybar-orientation-is-broken/54621 "2025-02-25T10:54:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![dassongh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/dassongh/32/29493_2.png) [@dassongh](https://forum.cursor.com/u/dassongh)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/vertical-activitybar-orientation-is-broken/54621/1 "2025-02-25T10:54:57Z")

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The “workbench.activityBar.orientation”: “vertical” setting allows you to position icons like in VSCode.

This is more convenient and resolves the issue of “Unknown part workbench.parts.activitybar” when moving to the sidebar.

The recent update has caused the icons view to break. Seems like the sidebar overlaps with the activity bar.

> <https://github.com/getcursor/cursor/issues/1570>
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> 1) If you can, please include a screenshot of your problem
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> !\[Screenshot 2024-…07-26 at 10 28 21 PM\](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/8d4efa36-b505-4d9b-97a1-84302d8777d5)
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> 2) Please include the name of your operating system
> MacOS
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> 3) If you can, steps to reproduce are super helpful
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> I have these vscode shortcuts to move between splits ( ctrl + l ) to move to right right split & ( ctrl + h ) to move to the left split, however I am unable to move to the sidebar and I can only move to splits. ( it works on vscode fine )

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/8/d/8d000011287d81b82e3bb173daba8d24a5057bb9.png)

Here how it should look like

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/4/e/4e2c42b6f67ef33a981952f6ba0d4efa80f6abec.png)

🔄 To reproduce just set  
{  
“workbench.activityBar.orientation”: “vertical”,  
“workbench.activityBar.location”: “top”,  
}

💻 MacOS, Cursor Version: 0.46.4, VSCode Version: 1.96.2

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/system/32/99069_2.png) [@system](https://forum.cursor.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 10:55am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/vertical-activitybar-orientation-is-broken/54621/2 "2025-03-27T10:55:25Z")

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