Xfce4-dict a client program to query different dictionaries
xfce4-dict [option] [text ...]
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: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict
If called without any arguments, the xfce4-dict main window is shown. Any passed text argument(s) are used as search text.
Search the given text using a Dict server(RFC 2229).
Search the given text using a web-based search engine.
Grab the focus on the text field in the panel (has no effect if panel plugin is not loaded).
Check the given text with a spellchecker.
Start stand-alone application even if the panel plugin is loaded.
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.
Be verbose (print useful status messages).
Show version information.
Show help information and exit.
xfce4-dict supports all generic GTK options, a list is available on the help screen.
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.
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.