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<H1>XFCE4-DICT</H1>
Section: (1)<BR>Updated: May 20, 2013<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
xfce4-dict --- a client program to query different dictionaries
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<H2>SYNOPSIS</H2>
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<B>xfce4-dict</B> [<B>option</B>] [<B>text ...</B>]
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
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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 &quot;Dict&quot; 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.
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Homepage: <A HREF="http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict">http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict</A>
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<H2>OPTIONS</H2>
If called without any arguments, the xfce4-dict main window is shown.
Any passed text argument(s) are used as search text.
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<DT id="1"><B>-d</B>, <B>--dict</B> <DD>
Search the given text using a Dict server(RFC 2229).
<DT id="2"><B>-w</B>, <B>--web</B> <DD>
Search the given text using a web-based search engine.
<DT id="3"><B>-t</B>, <B>--text-field</B> <DD>
Grab the focus on the text field in the panel (has no effect if panel plugin is not loaded).
<DT id="4"><B>-s</B>, <B>--spell</B> <DD>
Check the given text with a spellchecker.
<DT id="5"><B>-i</B>, <B>--ignore-plugin</B> <DD>
Start stand-alone application even if the panel plugin is loaded.
<DT id="6"><B>-c</B>, <B>--clipboard</B> <DD>
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.
<DT id="7"><B>-v</B>, <B>--verbose</B> <DD>
Be verbose (print useful status messages).
<DT id="8"><B>-V</B>, <B>--version</B> <DD>
Show version information.
<DT id="9"><B>-?</B>, <B>--help</B> <DD>
Show help information and exit.
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xfce4-dict supports all generic GTK options, a list is available on the help screen.
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<H2>BUGS</H2>
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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.
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<H2>AUTHOR</H2>
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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.
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<DT id="10"><A HREF="#lbAB">NAME</A><DD>
<DT id="11"><A HREF="#lbAC">SYNOPSIS</A><DD>
<DT id="12"><A HREF="#lbAD">DESCRIPTION</A><DD>
<DT id="13"><A HREF="#lbAE">OPTIONS</A><DD>
<DT id="14"><A HREF="#lbAF">BUGS</A><DD>
<DT id="15"><A HREF="#lbAG">AUTHOR</A><DD>
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