doomemacs/modules/ui/doom-dashboard/README.org
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refactor!: replace all-the-icons with nerd-icons
BREAKING CHANGE: This commit replaces all-the-icons with nerd-fonts. Any
all-the-icons-* function calls or variable references in your private
config will break and should be replaced with their nerd-icons-*
equivalent. That said, Doom will continue to install all-the-icons for
a while, so feel free to load it if you don't want to fully commit to
the change yet.

This change is happening because nerd-icon has wider support for GUI and
TUI Emacs; has a larger, more consistent selection of symbols; plus unicode
coverage.

Fix: #7368
Close: #6675
Close: #7364
2023-09-14 01:03:55 +02:00

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#+title: :ui doom-dashboard
#+subtitle: Welcome to your doom
#+created: February 20, 2017
#+since: 2.0.0
* Description :unfold:
This module adds a minimalistic, Atom-inspired dashboard to Emacs.
Besides eye candy, the dashboard serves two other purposes:
1. To improve Doom's startup times (the dashboard is lighter than the scratch
buffer in many cases).
2. And to preserve the "last open directory" you were in. Occasionally, I kill
the last buffer in my project and I end up who-knows-where (in the working
directory of another buffer/project). It can take some work to find my way
back to where I was. Not with the Dashboard.
Since the dashboard cannot be killed, and it remembers the working directory
of the last open buffer, ~M-x find-file~ will work from the directory I
expect.
** Maintainers
- [[doom-user:][@hlissner]]
[[doom-contrib-maintainer:][Become a maintainer?]]
** Module flags
/This module has no flags./
** Packages
/This module doesn't install any packages./
** Hacks
/No hacks documented for this module./
** TODO Changelog
# This section will be machine generated. Don't edit it by hand.
/This module does not have a changelog yet./
* Installation
[[id:01cffea4-3329-45e2-a892-95a384ab2338][Enable this module in your ~doom!~ block.]]
This module only requires that ~nerd-icons~'s icon fonts are installed, which
should've been installed when you ran ~$ doom install~. Otherwise, use ~M-x
nerd-icons-install-fonts~ to install them.
* Usage
Once this module is enabled, the dashboard will present itself after opening a
fresh instance of Emacs, or after killing all real buffers.
You can forcibly open the dashboard with ~M-x +doom-dashboard/open~.
* TODO Configuration
#+begin_quote
🔨 /This module's configuration documentation is incomplete./ [[doom-contrib-module:][Complete it?]]
#+end_quote
** A custom banner
To use a custom image as your banner, change ~fancy-splash-image~:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(setq fancy-splash-image "~/my/banners/image.png")
#+end_src
#+begin_quote
📌 Doom will fall back to its ASCII banner in Terminal Emacs. To replace the
ASCII banner, replace the ~doom-dashboard-widget-banner~ function in
~+doom-dashboard-functions~ with a function that inserts your new banner
into the current file.
#+end_quote
** Adding text to the dashboard
Doom's dashboard iterates over ~+doom-dashboard-functions~ when it is told to
redraw. Add your own functions to operate on the buffer and potentially add
whatever you like to Doom's splash screen.
#+begin_quote
🚧 Keep in mind that inserting text from expensive sources, e.g. your org
agenda, will negate most of Doom's startup benefits.
#+end_quote
** Customizing Faces
Doom's dashboard defaults to inheriting faces set by the current theme. If you
wish to customize it independently of the theme (or just inherit a different
color from the theme) you can make use of ~custom-set-faces!~ or
~custom-theme-set-faces!~:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(custom-set-faces!
'(doom-dashboard-banner :foreground "red" :background "#000000" :weight bold)
'(doom-dashboard-footer :inherit font-lock-constant-face)
'(doom-dashboard-footer-icon :inherit nerd-icons-red)
'(doom-dashboard-loaded :inherit font-lock-warning-face)
'(doom-dashboard-menu-desc :inherit font-lock-string-face)
'(doom-dashboard-menu-title :inherit font-lock-function-name-face))
#+end_src
or for a per-theme setting
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(custom-theme-set-faces! 'doom-tomorrow-night
'(doom-dashboard-banner :foreground "red" :background "#000000" :weight bold)
'(doom-dashboard-footer :inherit font-lock-constant-face)
'(doom-dashboard-footer-icon :inherit nerd-icons-red)
'(doom-dashboard-loaded :inherit font-lock-warning-face)
'(doom-dashboard-menu-desc :inherit font-lock-string-face)
'(doom-dashboard-menu-title :inherit font-lock-function-name-face))
#+end_src
* Troubleshooting
/There are no known problems with this module./ [[doom-report:][Report one?]]
* Frequently asked questions
/This module has no FAQs yet./ [[doom-suggest-faq:][Ask one?]]
* TODO Appendix
#+begin_quote
🔨 This module has no appendix yet. [[doom-contrib-module:][Write one?]]
#+end_quote