# Collabora Online Code Server and Welcome banner

**URL:** <https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-online-code-server-and-welcome-banner/1051>\
**Category:** User Support\
**Created:** [April 20, 2022, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-online-code-server-and-welcome-banner/1051 "2022-04-20T07:24:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![freebeasty1801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e79b87/32.png) [@freebeasty1801](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/freebeasty1801)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 7:24am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-online-code-server-and-welcome-banner/1051/1 "2022-04-20T07:24:23Z")

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hello all,

I use Nextcloud in version 23.0.3 and the Collabora Online Built-in Code Server in version 21.11.306. I also use Debian 11.

Nextcloud and the apps - especially Collabora Code Server - are all up to date.

I don’t use Nextcloud as a Docker image and I don’t want to change this at the moment.

When opening Office files within nextcloud Collabora Code server shows a Welcome banner.

This banner can be closed with a few clicks, but it appears every time and therefore this is very annoying.

According to my Internet research there should be 2 configuration files related to that behaviour:

/etc/loolwsd/loolwsd.xml  
and  
/etc/coolwsd/coolwsd.xml

The welcome popup should be disabled with this snippet:

`<welcome> <enable type="bool" desc="Controls whether the welcome screen should be shown to the users on new install and updates." default="false">false</enable>`

But that has no effect on my installation.

Access rights are :  
-rw-r–r-- 1 lool lool 18150 12. Apr 11:37 /etc/coolwsd/coolwsd.xml

Do you have some idea ? Can you help me ?

What else can I try ?

Thanks and Regards,  
Raphael

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**Author:** ![joergmschulz](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.collaboraonline.com/joergmschulz/32/953_2.png) [@joergmschulz](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/joergmschulz)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2022, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-online-code-server-and-welcome-banner/1051/2 "2022-04-22T18:22:56Z")

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Like it or not (I don’t) - this is intentional, can be understood and has a good reason: [Welcome screen is displayed although it is disabled in config · Issue #4489 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/4489#issuecomment-1082916884) . At least team is working on a version that is less obstrusive (vanishes after xx seconds, ok button easier to find).