Workbench › Panel: Opens Maximized

[vitek]

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

The VSCode setting “Workbench › Panel: Opens Maximized” doesn’t work on Cursor 2.0. No matter what option is selected, the panel never opens maximized.

Steps to Reproduce

Change setting “Workbench › Panel: Opens Maximized” to “always”, and run command “View: Toggle Panel Visibility” (or use the default keyboard shortcut command+j) to open the panel. It will not open maximized.

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 2.0.54 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 7a31bffd467aa2d9adfda69076eb924e9062cb20
Date: 2025-11-03T22:40:44.657Z (21 hrs 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 24.6.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

[deanrie]

Hey, thanks for the report. It looks like a regression in Cursor 2.0 related to panel behavior.

I’ll pass this to the team to investigate. In the meantime, you can manually maximize the panel using the command palette:

• Open Command Palette Cmd+Shift+P
• Search for “View: Toggle Maximized Panel”

Let me know if you notice any other panel-related issues.

[sub_d2]

any updates on this? it’s still happening to me

[eddietindame]

Same here. Really frustrating issue.

[saiichi (Saiichi Hashimoto)]

Still happening, main reason I’ve switched back to VS Code

[Alex20 (Alex)]

Still relevant

[conscv (Chris Varano)]

just switched from vscode to cursor v2 and will switch back if this isn’t fixed