Editing GNOME Display Manager (section)

==Hidden features==
Until version 2.22,<ref>{{cite web
 | url        = http://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm/commit/gui/gdmlogin.c?h=gnome-2-22&id=3dfd5dedf50bb4a95730dea046aedcfec678fca1
 | title      = migrate gui to new config framework with a chainsaw
 | date       = 2007-06-01
 | access-date = 2014-04-26}}</ref> GDM had a few [[Easter egg (media)|Easter eggs]], in the form of strings to be entered in the username box. These can be found in the source file "gui/guilogin.c", in a function named "evil".<ref>{{cite web
 | archive-url = https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/blob/gnome-2-20/gui/gdmlogin.c#L807
 | url         = http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gdm/tree/gui/gdmlogin.c?h=gnome-2-20#n806
 | title       = gdm – guilogin.c
 | archive-date = 2018-05-31
 | access-date  = 2018-08-09}}</ref>

* Dancing login – type "Start Dancing" to start, and "Stop Dancing" to stop.
** (This requires the standard greeter ("GTK+ Greeter"), rather than the graphical one ("Themed Greeter")).
* "Gimme Random Cursor" – can be used repeatedly.
** This changes the mouse cursor to a randomly selected 1 of 77 different "cursor fonts" as defined in the X11 specification.
* "Require Quarter" (or "Require Quater", for backward compatibility with a typo in the original),<ref>{{cite web
 | url        = http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gdm/commit/?h=gnome-2-20&id=ee8de912c84d9df4180965fe49108051f563ce11 | title= GDM commit ee8de912
 | date       = 5 March 2001
 | access-date = 2009-08-26}}</ref> then log in normally – a dialog box that reads "Please insert 25 cents to log in." appears after entering the password. Clicking "OK" allows the login process to proceed as normal.

===Queen of England===
Some of the copyright notices of GDM refer to the "Queen of England", whom release announcements from version 2.2.1 also named as a maintainer.<ref>{{cite web
 | url   = https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-May/msg00008.html
 | title = ANNOUNCE: GDM 2.2.1, the 'Just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you' release
 | date  = 4 May 2001
 | quote = Gdm2 was originally written by Martin K. Petersen <mkp mkp net>, and is now maintained by the Queen of England.}}</ref> Subsequently, developers realised that the title "[[List of English monarchs|Queen of England]]" has not existed since the [[Acts of Union 1707|Acts of Union of 1707]].<ref>{{cite web
 | url   = https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gdm-list/2004-March/msg00002.html
 | title = ANNOUNCE: GDM 2.5.90.2 (unstable), the "Nose poking" release
 | date  = 4 March 2004}}</ref>