An extensible emacs startup screen showing you what’s most important.
- Displays an awesome Emacs banner!
- Recent files
- Bookmarks list
- Recent projects list (Depends on `projectile` or `project.el` package)
- Org mode agenda
- Register list
You will need the following packages which are all available on Melpa:
- page-break-lines - https://github.com/purcell/page-break-lines
- (optional) projectile - https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile
- (optional) all-the-icons - https://github.com/domtronn/all-the-icons.el
M-x package-install RET dashboard
(require 'dashboard)
(dashboard-setup-startup-hook)
;; Or if you use use-package
(use-package dashboard
:ensure t
:config
(dashboard-setup-startup-hook))
By default, this will show three lists, recent files and bookmarks and org-agenda items.
The widget “projects”, which shows a list of recent projects, is not enabled
by default since it depends on packages that might not be available. To
activate the widget, set the variable dashboard-projects-backend
to either
'projectile
(projectile, available from melpa) or 'project-el
(project.el,
available from GNU elpa), then add an entry like
(projects . 5)
to the variable dashboard-items
.
In addition to the above, configure initial-buffer-choice
to show
Dashboard in frames created with emacsclient -c
as follows:
(setq initial-buffer-choice (lambda () (get-buffer "*dashboard*")))
To update the banner or banner title
;; Set the title
(setq dashboard-banner-logo-title "Welcome to Emacs Dashboard")
;; Set the banner
(setq dashboard-startup-banner [VALUE])
;; Value can be
;; 'official which displays the official emacs logo
;; 'logo which displays an alternative emacs logo
;; 1, 2 or 3 which displays one of the text banners
;; "path/to/your/image.png" or "path/to/your/text.txt" which displays whatever image/text you would prefer
;; Content is not centered by default. To center, set
(setq dashboard-center-content t)
;; To disable shortcut "jump" indicators for each section, set
(setq dashboard-show-shortcuts nil)
To customize which widgets are displayed, you can use the following snippet
(setq dashboard-items '((recents . 5)
(bookmarks . 5)
(projects . 5)
(agenda . 5)
(registers . 5)))
This will add the recent files, bookmarks, projects, org-agenda and registers widgets to your dashboard each displaying 5 items.
To add your own custom widget is pretty easy, define your widget’s callback function and add it to `dashboard-items` as such:
(defun dashboard-insert-custom (list-size)
(insert "Custom text"))
(add-to-list 'dashboard-item-generators '(custom . dashboard-insert-custom))
(add-to-list 'dashboard-items '(custom) t)
To add icons to the widget headings and their items:
(setq dashboard-set-heading-icons t)
(setq dashboard-set-file-icons t)
To modify heading icons with another icon from all-the-icons octicons:
(dashboard-modify-heading-icons '((recents . "file-text")
(bookmarks . "book")))
To show navigator below the banner:
(setq dashboard-set-navigator t)
To customize the buttons of the navigator like this:
;; Format: "(icon title help action face prefix suffix)"
(setq dashboard-navigator-buttons
`(;; line1
((,(all-the-icons-octicon "mark-github" :height 1.1 :v-adjust 0.0)
"Homepage"
"Browse homepage"
(lambda (&rest _) (browse-url "homepage")))
("★" "Star" "Show stars" (lambda (&rest _) (show-stars)) warning)
("?" "" "?/h" #'show-help nil "<" ">"))
;; line 2
((,(all-the-icons-faicon "linkedin" :height 1.1 :v-adjust 0.0)
"Linkedin"
""
(lambda (&rest _) (browse-url "homepage")))
("⚑" nil "Show flags" (lambda (&rest _) (message "flag")) error))))
To show info about the packages loaded and the init time:
(setq dashboard-set-init-info t)
Also, the message can be customized like this:
(setq dashboard-init-info "This is an init message!")
A randomly selected footnote will be displayed. To disable it:
(setq dashboard-set-footer nil)
To customize it and customize its icon;
(setq dashboard-footer-messages '("Dashboard is pretty cool!"))
(setq dashboard-footer-icon (all-the-icons-octicon "dashboard"
:height 1.1
:v-adjust -0.05
:face 'font-lock-keyword-face))
To use it with counsel-projectile or persp-projectile
(setq dashboard-projects-switch-function 'counsel-projectile-switch-project-by-name)
Or
(setq dashboard-projects-switch-function 'projectile-persp-switch-project)
To display today’s agenda items on the dashboard, add agenda
to dashboard-items
:
(add-to-list 'dashboard-items '(agenda) t)
To show agenda for the upcoming seven days set the variable dashboard-week-agenda
to t
.
(setq dashboard-week-agenda t)
Note that setting list-size for the agenda list is intentionally ignored; all agenda items for the current day will be displayed.
To customize which categories from the agenda items should be visible in the dashboard set the dashboard-org-agenda-categories
to the list of categories you need.
(setq dashboard-org-agenda-categories '("Tasks" "Appointments"))
By default org-agenda entries are filter by time, only showing those
task with DEADLINE
or SCHEDULE-TIME
. To show all agenda entries
(except DONE
)
(setq dashboard-filter-agenda-entry dashboard-no-filter-agenda)
To have an extra filter, MATCH
parameter is exposed as
dashboard-match-agenda-entry
variable, by default is nil
‘MATCH’ is a tags/property/TODO match. Org iterates only matched headlines. Org iterates over all headlines when MATCH is nil or t.
See Org Manual for more information.
It is possible to customize Dashboard’s appearance using the following faces:
dashboard-banner-logo-title
- Highlights the banner title.
dashboard-text-banner
- Highlights text banners.
dashboard-heading
- Highlights widget headings.
dashboard-items-face
- Highlights widget items.
You can use any of the following shortcuts inside Dashboard
Shortcut | Function |
---|---|
Tab Or C-i | Next Item |
Shift-Tab | Previous Item |
Return / Mouse Click / C-m | Open |
r | Recent files |
m | Bookmarks |
p | Projects |
a | Org-Mode Agenda |
e | Registers |
g | Refresh contents |
{ | Previous section |
} | Next section |
- [X] Center content
- [X] More banner options
- [X] Customizing the list of widgets to display
- [X] Integrate Org-mode’s agenda
- [ ] Listing Perspectives
To contribute your changes to this package, please do the following:
- Fork the repo
- Clone a local copy
- Make your changes
- Push and create your PR
When working on this package, it’s typical to uninstall dashboard, develop your changes and then install this as “development version”.
This is accomplished with the following steps:
# In emacs:
M-x package-delete dashboard-<version> RET
make build
make install