Using screen: part 5

Screen is like a little, big tool, that can do all these nice things. But still there are some things about it, that aren't that nice. Every time the screen program is started a warranty message is shown. This is not really useful.

So I will show two ways to stop this behaviour. The first is to use the -q option when you start the program.

The second way is to use the startup_message off command in your .screenrc file. Just create a file called .screenrc and put the line in it. The next time you start screen you won't see the message.

There are many other options, which you can set in the .screenrc file. All these are documented in the info file that is included with your screen distribution.