"Virtualmin Icon" only refreshes left panel

[Ilia]

@Joe

I think we’d have to ask @Ilia what the expected behavior is. I kinda feel like as long as you’re “in Virtualmin” I wouldn’t expect it to change the page in the right content pane just because the menu is reloaded. It does change it when you go from Webmin to Virtualmin and back, which I would expect.

Yes, I made this change on purpose. The previous way it worked wasn’t quite right. Now, if the page you’re seeing is the one you’re supposed to see based on your theme settings, you don’t need to reload over again.

However, it does change when you switch tabs, like from Webmin to Virtualmin, depending on your theme settings. And it also syncs when you switch domains.

@Joe

Like, the menu continues to correctly show what pages is selected in the menu. A lot of trouble went into making it behave this way (having it switch to dashboard and forget where it was would be easier), I can’t imagine it’s not intentional.

Yes, it is—and it was a real challenge to get it working the way it is now.

@tpnsolutions

When you click the “Virtualmin” icon, it usually refreshes the left panel, and opens the Dashboard (or whatever has been set as the default in the theme settings).

As I mentioned earlier, it’s a feature that’s expected.

Note, that if you want to refresh the content page, you can simply press Alt+R or ⌥ R, without having to click on the menu.

Even though I didn’t add a specific option for this in the UI, since I don’t think it should exist, I expected this to come up. So, you can still get the old behavior by running the following code in the browser console:

settings_right_reload = 2;
theme.config.save();

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The Authentic theme version 25.10 and up will have a setting to change this behavior on the “Theme Configuration” page using the “Load default page on navigation switch” option.

Note, if changed manually via the browser’s console as described above, the variable name settings_right_reload is now settings_right_sync in theme version 25.10, because the value type changed from boolean to numeric.