Entrance /ɛnˈtræns/ is: a display manager for the——X Window System. It is written using the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, 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 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. In 2017 development was restarted by William L. Thomson Jr. by forking Entrance.
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.
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- ^ "Renaming Elsa to Entrance". Archived from the original on 2013-04-14. Retrieved 2012-09-03.
- ^ Former Entrance source code repository
- ^ Current Entrance source code repository and project home