Entrance is a
display manager
In the X Window System, an X display manager is a graphical login manager which starts a login session on an X server from the same or another computer.
A display manager presents the user with a login screen. A session starts when a user s ...
for the
X Window System. It is written using the
Enlightenment Foundation Libraries
The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) are a set of graphics libraries that grew out of the development of Enlightenment, a window manager and Wayland compositor. The project's focus is to make the EFL a flexible yet powerful and easy to ...
, a graphical toolkit written in
C.
Entrance is themeable, and is capable of launching different desktop environments from a list, as well as remembering users for auto-login. It also allows animation and visual effects. Customization is achieved by editing a database located in /etc/entrance/entrance.conf by default.
Development of Entrance was started around 2003 by Ibukun Olumuyiwa in order to create a successor to a program called Elogin. The project went on hiatus in 2005. On 9 August 2012, development was restarted by Michael Bouchaud, who renamed his previous display manager ("Elsa") to Entrance.
That project also went on hiatus in 2015-2016.
[Former Entrance source code repository](_blank)
/ref> In 2017 development was restarted by William L. Thomson Jr. by forking Entrance.[Current Entrance source code repository and project home](_blank)
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The name of Entrance may be a play on words, as the correct pronunciation hints at putting the user in a trance, though it is also the "entrance" to the graphical desktop.
See also
* Other display managers
* Enlightenment (software)
References
External links
Original Entrance website (no longer updated)
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X display managers