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can confirm XDG_DATA_DIRS works, put it in front of nohup cmd in my shell alias and now cursor launchs without SIGTRAP.

XDG_DATA_DIRS works for me too

@g.schulz Seems like someone already provided the link. However, if you should ever happen on something like this again, you can just proxy the request in a case like this.

use env XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share:/usr/local/share cursor works for me

@theoratkin intersting, still works for me on cachy (glib2 2.84.0-1.1)

@vitaliikuzhdin thank you I will implment it

It seems to be broken after recent glib2 (2.83.2 and onward) update (Trace/breakpoint trap). Here's the relevant bug report.

$ cursor Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

@g.schulz, you could use this API: https://www.cursor.com/api/download?platform=linux-x64&releaseTrack=latest

The automatic updates of the PKGBUILD are back to working again, but the situation is less than ideal. The problem is that Cursor have changed their distribution method. They publish their releases on S3 now, before they were using todesktop.com. Currently I infer the most version download link from this api: https://api2.cursor.sh/updates/api/update/darwin-x64/cursor/0.0.0/ As you may notice this is for the macos version and not linux (source: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/c/cursor.rb). The reason is simply that I do not know the api endpoint for getting the linux version (I tried the most obvious variants). This is a terrible workaround, but is the best I can do right now and may break any time the releases for macos and linux get out of sync for any reason.

If anyone can figure out a reliable check for the most recent cursor release for linux I will be happy to integrate that.

Btw, getting the most recent release via their homepage is not a solution. They do staggered releases so this version will be different for everyone downloading from there and is not a reliable source to query for the most recent release.

@s.pantaleev I've been using this as an alias with zsh. It works fine. Just modified it with grok to handle conversion to absolute paths.

function cursor {
  XDG_CONFIG_HOME=${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}

  # Allow users to override command-line options
  if [[ -f $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/cursor-flags.conf ]]; then
    CURSOR_USER_FLAGS="$(sed 's/#.*//' $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/cursor-flags.conf | tr '\n' ' ')"
  fi

  # Process arguments to convert paths to absolute paths
  processed_args=()
  for arg in "$@"; do
    if [[ -e "$arg" ]]; then
      processed_args+=("$(realpath "$arg")")
    else
      processed_args+=("$arg")
    fi
  done

  # Launch Cursor in the background, fully detached
  (nohup /opt/cursor-bin/cursor-bin.AppImage "${processed_args[@]}" $CURSOR_USER_FLAGS < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 &)
}