Can I disable the message line when launching ``screen -RR``

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Published on 2012-04-07T03:47:01Z Indexed on 2012/04/07 5:32 UTC
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screen -RR is great. It does one of the two thing automatically:

If there is any detached screen session, it picks up one can attach to it.
If there is no detached screen session(no session yet, or all have been attach to other terminal), it creates a new screen session automatically.

I use Windows server Remote Desktop a lot, screen -RR behaves almost the same when a client connects to a remote desktop server. It is natural and I like it.

However, when screen -RR determines it should create a new session, it displays a message line at terminal bottom for 5 second. I'd like to suppress this message line because it brings us little benefit. In my opinion, a remote user can always easily distinguish whether he is connected to a resumed session(a piled-up display) or a newly created session(a clean display) from what he sees in the terminal window.

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So, is there a way to suppress the nag "New screen..." ? Just suppress that very one, not suppress message line globally.

My env: opensuse 11.3, GNU screen 4.00.03 (FAU) 23-Oct-06

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