Weird sidebar highlighting when renaming/creating file

[V1adych (Nikita)]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

When creating/renaming a file in a sidebar, it entirely changes the color

Steps to Reproduce

create or rename a file

Expected Behavior

background will weirdly highlight

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.0.38 (Universal)
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: Darwin arm64 24.5.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

[arun]

Hey, I can reproduce the problem.

Version:

Version: 2.0.38
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: Darwin arm64 24.6.0

It does seem to be a regression because I cannot see the same problem on a previous version:

Version: 1.7.54
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 5c17eb2968a37f66bc6662f48d6356a100b67be0
Date: 2025-10-21T19:07:38.476Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0

I suppose staff can flag this internally for further review.

[sanjeed5 (Sanjeed)]

Thanks for reporting this with clear screenshots and version info!
I’ll flag this for the team to investigate.