Eclipse: How to disable welcome screen?

Question

I get an annoying welcome screen whenever I start eclipse. How can I get it to skip the welcome and go straight to the workbench when I start it?

Schenck

Answer 1

1. Open Eclipse
2. Uncheck the box in the bottom right hand corner (Show every time)
3. Close the welcome screen

Transmit

This was the right solution for me in Eclipse Neon. Small remark: In addition to unchecking the check box, you also should close the welcome screen tab once. – Abmho

Answer 2

The welcome screen is displayed whenever you first open eclipse with a new workspace. Once you close the welcome screen, this is noted in the workspace, and on a restart of eclipse with the same workspace, you will not see it again until you either use the menu Help/Welcome or switch to a new workspace.

Note that you may have to really close the Welcome screen via the 'x' in its title tab; not just hide or minimize it.

Changteh

This is not an answer on how to skip the welcome screen at startup – Puritanism

You're right. If you want to remove the welcome screen from a product, you would have to create the product yourself and NOT include any implementation of the org.eclipse.ui.intro extension point. With a given Eclipse IDE, you could try to just delete any org.eclipse.ui.intro* files from the plugins subdirectory of the product. – Changteh

This is not a correct answer. There is a checkbox that needs to be unchecked. – Calcutta

Answer 3

Follow the following steps for Eclipse Neon:

1. Go to Eclipse_Home\plugins
2. Take backup of the below jars and remove them from the above path
   1. org.eclipse.ui.intro.quicklinks_.jar
   2. org.eclipse.ui.intro.universal_.jar
   3. org.eclipse.ui.intro_.jar
3. Step 3: Restart Eclipse

Forevermore

This worked for me on Eclipse 2019-06, which for some reason on Linux doesn't show the disabling checkbox on the welcome screen. I just did mkdir plugins-hidden followed by mv plugins/org.eclipse.ui.intro* plugins-hidden, and the welcome screen is gone. – Talley

Answer 4

STEP 1: Go to the eclipse home folder -> Go to plugins folder.

STEP 2: Search for org.eclipse.ui.intro.universal and remove it from the folder.

STEP 3: Now try to startup your eclipse with the new workspace and you can see that the welcome screen will not show up anymore.

Monte

Answer 5

Another option is to create file in your workspace:

.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.ui.intro\introstate

and insert:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<state reopen="false"/>

Postilion

I tried this but it only unchecked the box "Show at startup" so that it will still show the first time – Gynaecomastia

As of Eclipse 2019-12, this is the ONLY option to disable the welcome screen, as Eclipse removed the checkbox to disable that screen. (They did however leave the text next to the checkbox, though. Don't ask... It's Eclipse.) – Sedgewinn

Answer 6

1 ) Go to Help Menu
2 ) Click on "Welcome"
3 ) Uncheck the "Always show Welcome at start up" in "Welcome Page" Right bottom Corner

Shull

Answer 7

1. Run Eclipse Neon as an Administrator.
2. When Eclipse starts up with the welcome screen, uncheck the bottom right hand corner box.
3. Close the welcome screen from upper part with the 'x'.
4. Close Eclipse Neon
5. Reopen Eclipse. You will not see the welcome screen anymore. Worked for me!

Haim

Answer 8

By creating the following file in your empty workspace:

workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.eclipse.ui.prefs

and fill it in with:

eclipse.preferences.version=1
showIntro=false

Carnap