Unable to make extention work in Cursor IDE

[mrjxtr]

Additional Info:

1. I have a dual boot system with Windows and vanilla Arch.
2. I was able to make this work seamlessly on Windows.
3. I initially encountered the same issue when using this with VScode but was fixed easily with:
   • sudo chown -R $(whoami) "$(which code)"
   • sudo chown -R $(whoami) /opt/visual-studio-code
   • sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/bin/code
4. I used yay -S cursor-bin to install cursor.

What I tried:

1. I tried to do the same with cursor, using which cursor and whereis cursor to locate cursor directory.
2. I also did sudo chown -R $(whoami) /opt/cursor-bin

I understand that Cursor is an AppImage for linux and maybe that is the issue? but is there a fix?

[joshmfrankel]

I've run into this same issue as well. What I've tried (that has yet to be successful):

1. Run app image with sudo sudo ./cursor-0.xxxxx.AppImage --no-sandbox
2. Run with custom user directory ./cursor-0.xxxxx.AppImage --user-data-dir=~/Applications/Cursor since the directory will have full permission control
3. Extract AppImage files to a writable location (I couldn't get this to run successfully)

./cursor-0.xxxxx.AppImage --appimage-extract
./squashfs-root/AppRun

All of the above encounter the same issue as the screenshot above. I believe the problem is that the mounted file system is marked as ro read-only.

I tried mount | grep cursor and found the directory mentioned in the error message as read-only.

❯ mount | grep cursor
~/cursor-0.xxxxx.AppImage on /tmp/.mount_cursorl9krmK type fuse.cursor-0.43.6x86_64.AppImage (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0)

Tried to remount it with sudo mount -o remount,rw ~/cursor-0.xxxxx.AppImage and it changes to read-write. However, after restarting Cursor to enact the change, it reverts to read-only. 🤷🏻