Galaxyline causes the Neovim splash screen to disappear

[jsatk]

After extensive debugging I've realized what was causing my nvim splash screen to flicker away almost instantly was this plugin. Simply having it installed seems to do it. It didn't matter if I commented out the require('settings.galaxyline').setup() in my init.lua or not.

[jsatk]

There was extensive convo about this in Gitter's neovim/neovim channel around 3pm PST if you want to take a peek at that as well.

[glepnir]

After extensive debugging I've realized what was causing my nvim splash screen to flicker away almost instantly was this plugin.

What do you mean ? can you post a min config that can reproduce your issue?

[jsatk]

After extensive debugging I've realized what was causing my nvim splash screen to flicker away almost instantly was this plugin.

What do you mean ? can you post a min config that can reproduce your issue?

Minimum init.lua.

vim.cmd [[packadd packer.nvim]]

return require('packer').startup(function()
  use {'wbthomason/packer.nvim', opt = true}
  use {'glepnir/galaxyline.nvim', requires = {'kyazdani42/nvim-web-devicons', opt = true}}
end)

When I run nvim I'd expect to see default splash screen. Instead it flickers quickly and disappears.

[glepnir]

hmm I will check it. maybe use startify or dashboard will be a good choice.

[jsatk]

hmm I will check it. maybe use startify or dashboard will be a good choice.

Sure. Those are nice plugins! I actually am trying out Dashboard now. But I'd rather not install extra plugins just to have a pretty splash screen that doesn't disappear.

Thanks for looking into it.

[regexPattern]

I'm facing the same issue. Is there any fix yet?

[jsatk]

I think the info in this comment is helpful. https://github.com/glepnir/galaxyline.nvim/issues/160#issue-881188596

[ibhagwan]

Just solved this for feline.nvim - you might find the information inside helpful.

[dinhhuy258]

The problem may come from the highlight values (StatusLine and StatusLineNC) in your neovim config. Set these values to the color same as the bg and fg in the galaxyline plugin then the problem may be gone.