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)