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How to set colors as the first header in the wiki

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
lua
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start with the dashboard configuration's header entry and compare the supplied Lua value with the Doom theme preview shown in the issue. Document the correct way to configure the colored header, with a verified example that produces the intended appearance.

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Description

First of all thanks for the great plugin.

Describe the bug
I jsut wanna know how to make the header looks like the one in the preview of doom theme, I tried using it but gots some weard results as follow

image

and this is the value of header in my config file for dashboard

        header = {

 "[48;5;0m                                              [38;2;167;201;171m",
 "       [38;2;31;107;152m███████████           [38;2;57;108;63m█████[38;2;167;201;171m      ██",
 "      [38;2;34;115;163m███████████             [38;2;61;116;68m█████ ",
 "      [38;2;36;122;174m███████[48;5;0m██[38;2;20;69;110m[38;2;122;187;225m███████ ███[38;2;65;124;72m████████ [38;2;152;192;157m███   ███████",
 "     [38;2;38;130;184m█████████[38;2;132;191;226m███████[48;5;0m ████[38;2;69;132;76m████████ [38;2;160;196;164m█████ ██████████████",
 "    [38;2;40;138;195m█████████[38;2;142;196;228m█████[48;5;0m[38;2;20;69;110m██[38;2;142;196;228m██████[38;2;73;140;81m███████ [38;2;167;201;171m█████ █████ ████ █████",
 "  [38;2;43;145;206m███████████[38;2;151;200;229m█████████████████[38;2;77;147;86m██████ [38;2;175;205;179m█████ █████ ████ █████",
 " [38;2;45;153;217m██████  ███ [38;2;160;204;231m█████████████████ [38;2;81;155;90m████ [38;2;183;209;186m█████ █████ ████ ██████",
 " [38;2;20;69;110m██████   ██  ███████████████   [38;2;46;78;42m██ █████████████████",
 "[48;2;20;20;40m [38;2;11;39;63m██████   ██  ███████████████   [38;2;25;42;23m██ █████████████████ [48;5;0m",
        },

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