Você pode iniciar programas em telas usando o comando screen
no seu ~/.screenrc
e esses comandos estão aceitando opções.
Citando man 1 screen
:
Thus, if your ".screenrc" contains the lines
# example for .screenrc: screen 1 screen -fn -t foobar -L 2 telnet foobar
screen creates a shell window (in window #1) and a window with a TELNET connection to the machine foobar (with no flow-control using the title "foobar" in window #2) and will write a logfile ("screenlog.2") of the telnet session.