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

6       xfce4-dict — a client program to query different dictionaries
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SYNOPSIS

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

12       xfce4-dict  allows you to search different kinds of dictionary services
13       for words or phrases and shows you the result.  Currently you can query
14       a  "Dict"  server(RFC 2229), any online dictionary service by opening a
15       web browser or search for  words  using  a  spell  check  program  like
16       aspell, ispell or enchant.
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18       Homepage: https://docs.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-dict/start
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OPTIONS

21       If  called  without any arguments, the xfce4-dict main window is shown.
22       Any passed text argument(s) are used as search text.
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24       -d, --dict
25                 Search the given text using a Dict server(RFC 2229).
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27       -w, --web Search the given text using a web-based search engine.
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29       -t, --text-field
30                 Grab the focus on the text field in the panel (has no  effect
31                 if panel plugin is not loaded).
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34                 Check the given text with a spellchecker.
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36       -i, --ignore-plugin
37                 Start  stand-alone  application  even  if the panel plugin is
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40       -c, --clipboard
41                 Grabs the PRIMARY selection content (X selection  clipboard),
42                 uses  it as search text and performs a search. This is useful
43                 when you want to create keyboard shortcuts for this  command.
44                 The  search  method  can  be specified with the -d, -w and -s
45                 options, if not specified the default search method is  used.
46                 If the PRIMARY clipboard doesn't contain any text, the normal
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49       -v, --verbose
50                 Be verbose (print useful status messages).
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52       -V, --version
53                 Show version information.
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55       -?, --help
56                 Show help information and exit.
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58       xfce4-dict supports all generic GTK options, a list is available on the
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BUGS

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

72       This manual page was written by Enrico Troeger. Permission  is  granted
73       to  copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the
74       GNU General Public License, Version 2, or (at your  option)  any  later
75       version.
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79xfce4-dict 0.7.0                 May 20, 2013                    XFCE4-DICT(1)
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