XFCE4-DICT(1) XFCE4-DICT(1)

NAME

xfce4-dict -- a client program to query different dictionaries

SYNOPSIS

xfce4-dict [option] [text ...]

DESCRIPTION

xfce4-dict allows you to search different kinds of dictionary
services for words or phrases and shows you the result. Currently
you can query a "Dict" server(RFC 2229), any online dictionary
service by opening a web browser or search for words using a spell
check program like aspell, ispell or enchant.

Homepage: https://docs.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-dict/start

OPTIONS

If called without any arguments, the xfce4-dict main window is shown.
Any passed text argument(s) are used as search text.

-d, --dict
Search the given text using a Dict server(RFC 2229).

-w, --web Search the given text using a web-based search engine.

-t, --text-field
Grab the focus on the text field in the panel (has no
effect if panel plugin is not loaded).

-s, --spell
Check the given text with a spellchecker.

-i, --ignore-plugin
Start stand-alone application even if the panel plugin is
loaded.

-c, --clipboard
Grabs the PRIMARY selection content (X selection
clipboard), uses it as search text and performs a search.
This is useful when you want to create keyboard shortcuts
for this command. The search method can be specified with
the -d, -w and -s options, if not specified the default
search method is used. If the PRIMARY clipboard doesn't
contain any text, the normal clipboard is used.

-v, --verbose
Be verbose (print useful status messages).

-V, --version
Show version information.

-?, --help
Show help information and exit.

xfce4-dict supports all generic GTK options, a list is available on
the help screen.

BUGS

There is a limitation of max. 12 characters in passing a search term
to xfce4-dict when the panel plugin is loaded. That is, if you pass a
search term as command line argument(s) to xfce4-dict which is longer
than 12 characters, it is truncated. To be exact, the limit is 12
bytes so if the search term contains any non-ASCII characters it
might be even less than 12 characters. To work around this
limitation, you can add the command line '-i' so that xfce4-dict will
start a single stand-alone application. Then all passed text is used
as search term.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Enrico Troeger. Permission is granted
to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of
the GNU General Public License, Version 2, or (at your option) any
later version.

xfce4-dict 0.7.0 May 20, 2013 XFCE4-DICT(1)