Preview weird background color problem

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#482 opened on Sep 10, 2024 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 3/5
Estimated time: 1-2 days
Newbie friendliness: 30/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Needs clarification
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: lua, neovim
Domain: tooling

Research direction

Reproduce the dashboard preview with the supplied setup, Alacritty, rose-pine, and logo.txt. Start by tracing how the hyper theme renders the preview and terminal color escapes; determine whether the background mismatch is caused by the preview content or theme handling. Done means the background renders consistently or the expected limitation is documented.

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Description

The background color looks different in the dashboard. I am using alacritty. I have rose-pine theme installed in both nvim and alacritty. The default background color for my terminal is the same with nvim's background color, so there should be no difference. What is happening here?

config:

require('dashboard').setup {
  theme = 'hyper',
  shortcut_type = 'number',
  preview = {
    command = 'cat',
    file_path = "~/.config/nvim/logo.txt",
    file_width = 54,
    file_height = 12,
  },
  config = {
    shortcut = {
      {
        icon = ' ',
        desc = 'files',
        group = 'Label',
        action = 'Telescope find_files',
        key = 'f',
      },
      {
        desc = ' nixconfig',
        group = 'DiagnosticHint',
        action = 'Telescope find_files search_dirs=/etc/nixos/',
        key = 'n',
      },
      {
        desc = ' dotfiles',
        group = 'Number',
        action = 'Telescope find_files search_dirs=~/.config/',
        -- action = 'Telescope find_files cwd=~/.config/',
        key = 'c',
      },
    },
    footer = {},
  },
}

logo.txt:

[1;49m





[1;35m███╗   ██╗ ███████╗ ██████╗  ██╗   ██╗ ██╗ ███╗   ███╗
████╗  ██║ ██╔════╝██╔═══██╗ ██║   ██║ ██║ ████╗ ████║
██╔██╗ ██║ █████╗  ██║   ██║ ██║   ██║ ██║ ██╔████╔██║
██║╚██╗██║ ██╔══╝  ██║   ██║ ╚██╗ ██╔╝ ██║ ██║╚██╔╝██║
██║ ╚████║ ███████╗╚██████╔╝  ╚████╔╝  ██║ ██║ ╚═╝ ██║
╚═╝  ╚═══╝ ╚══════╝ ╚═════╝    ╚═══╝   ╚═╝ ╚═╝     ╚═╝

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