Try the the toggle icon in the VM backend's menu under the new template.
What you get is this:
(https://i.ibb.co/FHkRqXd/VM-menu-toggle.png)
In the CSS file for this layer, add: display: none;
:)
every time we don't use internal VM menu
it is always closed - we are waiting for a better modification, when the links will be directly in the Joomla menu