MIT · Free forever Grav 2.0 Admin2 Team DC

Your CMS
inside a real desktop

Mambo Desktop for Admin2 — draggable icons, windows, taskbar, Start menu, sticky notes, operator tools, and Team DC Arcade. JavaBean paints the chrome. This is the flight deck.

"The original Mambo Desktop rides again — Team DC flight deck, not official Grav desktop."

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Shipped in v0.6.0

Three phases. One desktop.

20+desktop apps

3release phases

4arcade games

$0MIT forever

Phase A — Real

Operator essentials

Site Vitals, Recent Pages, Spotify embed, JavaBean wallpaper sync. The desktop stops being a toy.

Phase B — Operator

Power tools

Log Tail, Maintenance toggle (.upgrading), API Smoke Test, GPM quick search. For humans who run Grav.

Phase C — Delight

Make it yours

Sticky notes (server-saved), wallpaper preset strip, custom wallpaper upload per admin user. Chef's kiss.

Screenshots

Windows, notes, arcade — oh my.

Spotify running in a Mambo Desktop window — Spotify in a desktop window

Emoji Invaders title screen — Emoji Invaders · Team DC Arcade

FlapLab boot screen — Magick Emojis: FlapLab

Ecosystem

Pairs with the Team DC stack

Mambo Desktop is the surface. JavaBean themes it. Operator Dock shortcuts the menubar. All MIT. Commercial GravMUD plugins stay separate.

☕ JavaBean ⚓ Operator Dock 🏠 GravMUD HQ 🚀 GetGRAV!

Ship it

Install in sixty seconds.

grav $ bin/gpm install mambo-desktop-admin2 # Or: copy to user/plugins/mambo-desktop-admin2 → bin/grav cache # Arcade: mambo-desktop-arcade-bundle.zip from Releases → assets/arcade/ # Admin2 sidebar → Mambo Desktop → double-click icons → profit

Community

GitHub Discussions are open

Ideas, Q&A, show-and-tell your desktop setups, polls, and announcements — same vibe as JavaBean. No Discord required.

💬 Open discussions 🐛 Report a bug