could not find banner

[wang1zhen]

Hi, I use emacs in server mode, and every time I initiate emacs, the following message is shown:

could not find banner ~/.emacs.d/logo.png, use default instead

however, the banner picture is correctly loaded.

Here is my dashboard configs:

(use-package dashboard
      :config
      (setq dashboard-startup-banner "~/.emacs.d/logo.png"
      (dashboard-setup-startup-hook)
      (when (< (length command-line-args) 2)
        (setq initial-buffer-choice (lambda () (get-buffer "*dashboard*")))))

And I start emacs with emacsclient -c -a ""

[jcs090218]

You posted an invalid config, you should have the ) in the end of line 3.

(use-package dashboard
  :config
  (setq dashboard-startup-banner "~/.emacs.d/logo.png")
  (dashboard-setup-startup-hook)
  (when (< (length command-line-args) 2)
    (setq initial-buffer-choice (lambda () (get-buffer "*dashboard*")))))

Try having the dashboard-startup-banner in the :init scope and not config.

[wang1zhen]

Thanks for reply, I have moved the banner into init part, and the message is still there:

(use-package dashboard
  :diminish
  :init
  (setq dashboard-startup-banner "~/.emacs.d/logo.png")
  :config
  (dashboard-setup-startup-hook)
  (when (< (length command-line-args) 2)
    (setq initial-buffer-choice (lambda () (get-buffer "*dashboard*")))))

[rnllv]

I'm able to see a similar behaviour as @wang1zhen mentioned in my Debian system with Emacs 28.1.
On invoking the emacsclient, the default logo is displayed, and the Messages buffer has the "could not find banner" message.
But once the frame is resized/maximized, the specified logo is displayed.

[rnllv]

This is my config

  (use-package all-the-icons :ensure t) ;;Make sure all-the-icons package is installed
  ;;Ensure to run the command: all-the-icons-install-fonts
  (use-package dashboard
  :ensure t ;;install dashboard if not installed
  :init ;; tweak dashboard's configuration before loading it
  (setq dashboard-set-heading-icons t)
  (setq dashboard-set-file-icons t)
  (setq dashboard-banner-logo-title "My Way!")
  (setq dashboard-startup-banner "~/.emacs.d/myway.png")
  (setq dashboard-center-content nil)
  (setq dashboard-items '(
      (recents . 10)
      (agenda . 5)
      (bookmarks . 5)
      (registers . 5)
  ))
  :config
  (dashboard-setup-startup-hook)
  (dashboard-modify-heading-icons '(
    (recents. "file-text")
    (bookmarks . "book"))))
  ;;This is for client mode  
  (setq initial-buffer-choice (lambda () (get-buffer "*dashboard*")))

[gmsvalente]

I'm having same issue here if I start with emacsclient. But if I start with emacs it works normally. Something with emacs daemon?

[gmsvalente]

As I suspected the problem is not with dashboard but is with how things are loaded using emacs --daemon. You can create an use-package init-dashboard and move (dashboard-setup-startup-hook) there to fix it:

(use-package dashboard
  :ensure t
  :init
  (setq dashboard-startup-banner figo-logo)
  (setq dashboard-set-heading-icons t)
  (setq dashboard-set-file-icons t)
  (setq dashboard-items '((recents . 15)))
  :config
  (dashboard-modify-heading-icons
   '((recents . "file-text"))))

(use-package init-dashboard
  :after 'dashboard
  :init
  (dashboard-setup-startup-hook))

[jcs090218]

The issue is the --daemon since (display-graphic-p) will always return nil. My current suggestion is to use server-mode instead of --daemon.

Further discuss for improvement can see #388.