Dashboard not shown automatically when neovim loads

[LittleHendrix]

Describe the bug Starting neovim normally and expect to be greeted by dashboard. However, seeing the 'new' empty buffer. Checking in :Lazy indicates that dashboard-nvim is loaded.

I have set up a fresh instance of neovim to test this in isolation without any other custom opts, plugins, .etc.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. run nvim in terminal to initiate

Expected behavior Dashboard loaded automatically

Screenshots Empty buffer on first load Lazy UI indicates dashboard-nvim loaded successfully Dashboard appears only after manually triggered via cmd e.g. :Dashboard Project structure (root) init.lua config/lazy.lua (no modification) plugins/dashboard-nvim.lua (only set theme)

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: [e.g. macOS 14.6.1]
• Neovim Version [e.g. 0.10.2]

Additional context dashboard-nvim is the only plugin installed in a fresh neovim instance, isolated by NVIM_APPNAME i.e. NVIM_APPNAME=my-nvim nvim