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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
lua
Domain
tooling

Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. First clarify whether the feature uses the header or a separate background option, and define tiling, cropping, and other custom behaviors for different window sizes. Done means the dashboard can render the ASCII art as a background with the agreed options.

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Description

Describe the solution you'd like
I'd like a feature that'd allow the header to be used as the background, with custom options on how to handle when the window is much larger than the ascii art (tiling etc.). You wouldn't need to resize the ascii art when the window is much smaller than the art, instead just cropping the center of the art instead.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Instead of modifying the header, we could also add a separate optional config option named background, that does the same thing, but you still have the header.

Additional context
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dashboard-nvim-background

Dominant language
Lua
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Forks
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