FAQ

FAQ

Why is there no "pin to Dock with a custom icon" feature?

An earlier build generated a wrapper .app per profile. Removed, because:

1. It didn't work while running — macOS shows the icon of whatever bundle is actually executing, so open windows always showed Cursor's stock icon.
2. It multiplied permission prompts — each wrapper is a distinct app identity, and macOS ties Microphone/Camera/folder consent to whichever bundle launched Cursor.

Per-profile title bar colors replace it (a JSON settings edit — no new app identity). Windows instead offers .lnk taskbar shortcuts, which dodge the identity problem because they point at the same Cursor.exe.

Does Prism spy on my code or phone home?

No. Everything is local: process lists, the on-screen window list, and files under ~/.cursor_profiles. No network code, no analytics, no daemon. (The npm/pip installers download the release binary once, from GitHub.)

CPU shows "—" sometimes?

System CPU % comes from kernel deltas, which need two samples — the first poll has nothing to diff against, so a dash shows until the second one lands (about one poll interval).

Why no window counts in the TUI on Linux?

Wayland exposes no global window list to clients. The GUI apps count on-screen windows where the OS allows it; the TUI shows PIDs and live memory instead of a guessed number.