Remove RatPoison banner on startup

[TheSin-]

in the ~pi/.ratpoisonrc

add

startup_message off

to remove the ugly startup banner, make it look more like a clean UI.

[UnchartedBull]

Will add this as an option to the installer script :) Thanks for the tip!

[pesawyer]

Will add this as an option to the installer script :) Thanks for the tip!

Recommend setting it to "off" as the default.

[teachingtechYT]

I'm trying to make this change post installation. ~pi/.ratpoisonrc was not present so I created it and added the line, but it has had no effect. Any tips to remove the message would be appreciated.

[UnchartedBull]

Just had a look at my system and ~/.ratpoisonrc wasn't present for me as well. After creating it and just adding the single line @TheSin- posted it worked just fine for me. I guess two things to try here first:

• Is the file owned by pi:pi?
• Maybe try changing the permissions (chmod 600 .ratpoisonrc), it worked for me with default permissions as well but it may be something to try.

After that ls -la should look like this for .ratpoisonrc:

Might also be worth a try to create /etc/ratpoisonrc as described here: https://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/doc/Startup-file.html. Let me know if this works for you, or whether you still have issues :)

Btw, are you running any other Window Managers beside ratpoison?

[teachingtechYT]

Thanks for the response. Previously I created the file as root so I deleted it and created it as pi which did the trick.

[UnchartedBull]

Yeah the whole Linux permission/user/group system can be tricky, I also mess that up quite a lot. But great that you figured it out and that it's working now! 👍