Background Extension Corrupts Cursor Installation

[petersopko]

• macOS Sonoma 14.5 user

• always latest Cursor, happens regardless of the version

• as mentioned, when I install the background image extension (most popular one) https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=shalldie.background upon every launch of cursor I get the notification that the Cursor installation appears to be corrupt

steps to reproduce:

1. download the background extension
2. set your background image to whatever
3. reset the cursor
4. notification about corrupted install should appear

when I uninstall the extension, the notification about corrupted install is gone

when I install it back again, it appears again

reinstalling cursor also doesn't work

The extension actually works as expected, the corrupted installation notif is just very annoying and appears on every launch of the cursor which I do quite a lot.

[andrew-healey]

Thanks for the report.

I think this is a security feature we've inherited from VSCode - technically, the background image extension is modifying the editor.

The same error message shows up on VSCode:

We probably won't change it, sorry. It's inconvenient for people using the background image extension, but it's probably overall a necessary feature.

[Ranamzes]

Maybe then you will give an opportunity to override css styles to users? Still vscode is valuable that it can be customised to the maximum extent possible. If it wasn't for this problem switching to cursor would be painless!

[Sogl]

Same after using custom CSS from here: leodevbro/vscode-blockman#141 (comment)

I wouldn't have done it without the Blockman extension bug showing up (the problem doesn't exist in VSCode): #1666

[DiegoHerreraGre]

Thanks for the report.

I think this is a security feature we've inherited from VSCode - technically, the background image extension is modifying the editor.

The same error message shows up on VSCode:

We probably won't change it, sorry. It's inconvenient for people using the background image extension, but it's probably overall a necessary feature.

Yes, but you can add a toggle to turn off this notification, like VS Code. Cursor didn't inherit that feature from VS Code.