Change behaviour of right-click on an item in the navigation tree
Change behaviour of right-click on an item in the navigation tree
Hi team,
My scenario:
An RDP session (or AnyDesk, RustDesk or similar) open to a remote machine
I am launching a software on a remote machine that prompts me to enter some user name and password (different from my Windows username/password)
I have that information saved in a credential entry (username and password) in RDM. I want to use it.
Under the above conditions I am right-clicking on the credential entry in Navigation pane to use "Copy username" context menu item.
The issue happens now. The mere right click switches the view from the RDP tab to Dashboard to helpfully show me details about the credential entry. I am selecting "Copy username" from the right-click context menu, and then I need to find the RDP entry I was working with (among many others open at the same time) to paste the contents of the clipboard to. I then again right-click on the credential entry in Navigation to use "Copy password" and again it switches the view to the dashboard. So I again search my server tab, activate it and paste the password in the appropriate textbox.
The request is: please disable switching to dashboard when an entry in Navigation is right-clicked. Or if you don't want to do that in a hard way, then please add an option in settings that will do that - "Disable switching to Dashboard on right-clicking an entry in Navigation pane".
RDM 2025.2.20.0 64-bit (JIT) on Windows 10, but I'd like to have that also on Linux.
Thank you in advance.
All Comments (13)
Hello RDMTinkerer,
We already have an option to keep the focus on your active session.
We also have multiple behaviours, such as only on left click.
You can find this one under File -> Settings -> Dashboard -> Auto-focus dashboard.
Let us know if this is what you were looking for.
Best regards,
Patrick Ouimet
Oh, my! Somehow I missed this setting. Thank you, this is what I was looking for.
You can close this FR.
I have to revisit this topic, because the actual RDM behavior turns out to be inconsistent.
My setting "Auto-focus dashboard" is set to "Left click only".
If I right-click on an entry in Navigation and the entry is not open (not active) then it works fine (the right-click menu opens and nothing else happens).
If I right-click on an active/open entry in Navigation, then it focuses the open session, which is an unexpected behavior.
This is RDM 2025.2.22.0 on Windows 10.
Please make active sessions respect the "Auto-focus dashboard" setting or add a new setting "Auto-focus session" with the same options.
EDIT: This is more nuanced than that. I can't pinpoint the different scenarios where it doesn't work as expected, but I'm encountering them continuously. For example now I needed to copy password from an inactive session to a Web session (Dell iDRAC) and it did focus the dashboard of the inactive session despite me only right-clicking it, not left-clicking.
Please investigate and fix.
Thank you.
Hello,
We have a ticket opened to rework these options to be more intuitive (from this thread), and we've added your feedback to our ticket so we can investigate this inconsistent behavior.
Regards,
Hubert Mireault