Atrium

Atrium is the Peios web UI. Point a browser at port 8080 of a Peios machine — http://<address>:8080 — and log in with a Peios account; what you get is not a management panel but a desktop: a launcher of applications, windows, and a terminal, all served by the machine and running on it as you.

Logging in through Atrium is a real logon, the same one the console performs: the machine's authority checks your credentials and your session runs under your own identity. Every application you open, and every command a terminal runs, is a process on the machine belonging to you.

The Toolbox and windows #

The grid of tiles is the Toolbox — every installed application. Click a tile to open it; right-click for more, including pinning it to the sidebar and opening a second window. Open windows appear individually in the sidebar; the coloured dots in a window's title bar close (red) and minimise (yellow) it, macOS-style.

Opening the same app again focuses its existing window; "Open in new window" on the right-click menu makes another.

Two browsers, one desktop #

Your desktop lives on the machine, not in the browser. Close the tab and come back: everything is where it was. Open the same machine from a second browser or device and you can log in again — each login is its own desktop today.

Keyboard #

Some chords belong to the browser itself (Ctrl+W, Ctrl+T, Alt+Tab) and never reach Atrium.

The terminal #

The Terminal app is your shell on the machine — the same shell a console login gives you, in a window. Closing the window ends the shell and everything it is running.

Services #

The Services app is service administration in a window: everything peinit supervises, its state and health at a glance, and start, stop and restart a click away. It acts with exactly your authority — it runs svctl as you — so it takes an administrator's logon; peinit refuses the connection to anyone else, and the app says so rather than showing an empty room.

Registry #

The Registry app browses the machine's layered configuration: a tree of hives on the left, a key's values in the middle, and an inspector that shows where a value came from — the layer that won, and the sequence it won at — before you change it. Edits are guarded: if a value changes under you between reading and saving, the save is refused and the app says so instead of overwriting blind. Like every Atrium app it acts with exactly your authority — it runs reg as you — so a key your logon may not open shows as denied, not as empty.

Atrium serves plain HTTP in this version: use it on networks you trust.