Aeion Desktop — Full OS-Like Admin Environment
Stop losing your place every time you click from CRM to Commerce to Helpdesk and back — full-page navigation means one view at a time and no way to compare two side by side. Aeion Desktop runs every module in its own resizable, draggable window, with Aero Snap, saved workspaces, and a Start Menu launcher, all inside the browser tab you already have open.
Desktop Environment
Windowed Views
Every module view opens as its own draggable, resizable window instead of taking over the whole page — keep your CRM pipeline and your Commerce dashboard visible at the same time.
Window States
Normal, minimized, maximized, or snapped to a half or quarter of the screen — every window remembers its exact state, so nothing resets when you switch tasks and come back.
Aero Snap
Drag a window to a screen edge and it snaps into place at half or quarter size — arranging a multi-window layout takes seconds, not manual resizing on every window.
Workspaces
Save an entire window layout — positions, sizes, which apps are open — as a named workspace, and restore it with one click when you switch from "morning standup" to "deep work" mode.
Taskbar
Window previews, pinned apps, system tray, and a clock keep every open window one glance away, the same muscle memory as a real OS taskbar.
Start Menu
Search for any module, jump back into recent items, or launch straight from the module grid — finding the view you need doesn't require remembering which sidebar section it's buried in.
Shortcuts
Every keyboard shortcut is remappable, so power users can drive the entire desktop — switching windows, snapping layouts, launching apps — without touching the mouse.
Sessions
Your layout auto-saves as you work and restores automatically on reload — close the tab by accident or restart your machine, and everything comes back exactly as you left it.
Widgets
Draggable mini-apps (Quick Actions, System Health, Recent Activity, Clock) live right on the desktop for the quick lookups that don't deserve their own full window.
Native Windows
Stream a native app running on your own machine — one that doesn't run in a browser at all — into an Aeion Desktop window via Bridge, so it sits alongside your other admin windows.
Glass Theming
Choose glass-dark, glass-light, solid-dark, or solid-light — translucent blur or flat color, whichever reads best on your monitor and doesn't fight your eyes during an 8-hour shift.
Transparency
A per-window transparency slider lets you keep a reference window subtly visible behind your main focus, instead of fully hiding it or fully covering your work.
Wallpaper
Solid, gradient, image, or animated backgrounds make the admin desktop feel like yours, not a generic dashboard template every tenant sees the same way.
Why It Actually Sticks
Nothing to lose, ever
Sessions auto-save every 30 seconds — window positions, active workspace, even scroll position and table filters — so a dropped connection or an accidental tab close costs you nothing.
Named workspaces for named contexts
"Morning Standup" (Deals + Pipeline + Tasks) and "Weekly Review" (Analytics + Revenue + CRM) are one click apart, each with its own auto-captured thumbnail so you recognize it at a glance.
A real taskbar, not a tab bar
Window previews, pinned apps, and a workspace switcher mean you never lose track of what's open, even with a dozen windows across two monitors.
It's still the same admin
Every view is the exact admin app you already know — Aeion Desktop just changes how many of them you can see and arrange at once.
Every Module in a Window
What Aeion Desktop replaces:
``` Old Admin UI: → Sidebar navigation → click → full-page navigation → Can't compare two views simultaneously → Lost context when switching between modules → Workspace cluttered with multiple tabs
Aeion Desktop: → Start Menu → click → window opens → Window floats over other windows → CRM Deals Board + Commerce Orders + Helpdesk Inbox → all visible → No tab juggling ```
Every window remembers everything:
``` Each open window tracks its own: → Title and icon → Which module view it's showing → Position and size on screen → Stacking order (which window is on top) → State: normal, minimized, maximized, or snapped to a half or quarter of the screen
That's what makes Aero Snap and saved Workspaces possible — every window's exact state is always known and restorable. ```
Aero Snap behavior:
Drag window to left edge → snaps to left 50%
Drag window to right edge → snaps to right 50%
Drag window to top edge → maximizes
Drag window to corner → snaps to quarter
Windows automatically resize when you drag the divider
Workspaces — Save and Restore Layouts
Name it, tag it, save it:
``` Save current layout as a workspace: Name: "Morning Standup" Description: "Deals + Pipeline + Today's Tasks" Windows: Deals Board (left), Pipeline View (snapped right), Tasks (bottom-left) Tags: daily, standup Thumbnail: auto-captured screenshot
// Multiple workspaces: Workspaces: 🌅 Morning Standup — Deals + Pipeline + Tasks 📊 Weekly Review — Analytics + Revenue + CRM 🛠️ Development — Forge + Logs + API Tests 📧 Support Mode — Helpdesk + CRM + Orders ```
Switching workspaces:
Taskbar → Workspace Switcher button
→ Shows all saved workspaces with thumbnails
→ Click → instant restore
→ All windows animate to saved positions
Sessions — Never Lose Your Work
Auto-saves every 30 seconds:
``` What gets saved: // → All open windows (position, size, state, stacking order) // → Active workspace // → Focused window // → Scroll positions within windows // → Filter/sort state in data tables
On page reload: 1. Session restored 2. Windows animate to saved positions 3. Focused window receives keyboard 4. Exactly as you left it ```
Theming — Glass Aero Aesthetic
Fully customizable appearance:
``` // Wallpaper types: { type: "solid", value: "#1e1e2e" type: "gradient", value: "linear-gradient(135deg, #667eea 0%, #764ba2 100%)" type: "image", value: "https://images.unsplash.com/..." // or Files asset ID type: "animated", value: "particles" | "matrix" | "waves" // CSS animated }
// Themes: "glass-dark" // Translucent windows, dark background, blur backdrop "glass-light" // Translucent windows, light background, blur "solid-dark" // Opaque windows, dark background "solid-light" // Opaque windows, light background
// Per-window settings: { accentColor: "#6366f1", // Custom accent (any hex) transparency: 85, // 0-100 (glass themes only) animationsEnabled: true, // Smooth window animations showDesktopIcons: true, // Show desktop icons area taskbarAutoHide: false, // Auto-hide taskbar showClock: true, // Show clock in taskbar clockFormat: "12h", // or "24h" } ```
Glass effect:
css
/* glass-dark theme window: */
background: rgba(30, 30, 46, 0.85);
backdrop-filter: blur(20px);
border: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1);
border-radius: 12px;
box-shadow: 0 8px 32px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);
Keyboard Shortcuts
Fully remappable, out of the box:
``` // Default shortcuts: [ { key: "Ctrl+Shift+D", action: "toggle-desktop" }, { key: "Meta+K", action: "open-command-palette" }, { key: "Alt+Tab", action: "cycle-windows" }, { key: "Alt+Shift+Tab", action: "cycle-windows-reverse" }, { key: "Super+1-9", action: "open-app-1-through-9" }, { key: "Ctrl+W", action: "close-window" }, { key: "Ctrl+M", action: "minimize-window" }, { key: "Ctrl+Shift+M", action: "maximize-window" }, { key: "Ctrl+Shift+Left", action: "snap-left" }, { key: "Ctrl+Shift+Right", action: "snap-right" }, ]
// Custom shortcuts: { label: "Open CRM Deals", icon: "ph:currency-dollar", route: "/admin/crm/deals", gridCol: 2, // Position in Start Menu grid gridRow: 1, isSystem: false, } ```
Native Windows via Bridge
Aeion Desktop + Bridge integration:
``` Aeion Desktop → Stream native OS window → Display in browser window
Use case: → You need to use a Windows app that only runs on Windows → Bridge client → captures native window → Streams framebuffer over WebSocket → Rendered in Aeion Desktop window
Admin → Bridge → Native Viewer: → List available windows on Bridge host → Click to stream window into Aeion Desktop
"Host Application" view: Streams the native window into a draggable/resizable Aeion Desktop window Keyboard/mouse forwarded to host ```
Frequently Asked Questions
The full windowed environment for the Aeion OS admin. Every module opens in its own resizable, draggable window, right inside your browser tab — no download, no install. Same admin app you already use, delivered as a proper multi-window desktop instead of one page at a time.
The desktop shell keeps your last layout on screen if the connection drops, but each window still needs a connection to load live module data. It's built for resilience during brief network blips, not extended offline use.
It's the same admin — every view you already use — just windowed. Instead of one full-page view at a time, each module opens in its own floating window, so you can keep several visible and arranged exactly how you work.
No. It runs in any modern Chromium-based browser. There's nothing to download and nothing to keep updated — it's current the moment you reload the page.
Yes, via Aeion Bridge. Install the lightweight Bridge connector and native windows on that machine — tools that don't run in a browser — can be streamed into an Aeion Desktop window alongside everything else.