xfce4-dict.1

.TH "XFCE4-DICT" "1" "October 23, 2008" "xfce4-dict 0.4.2" ""
.SH "NAME"
xfce4-dict \(em a client program to query different dictionaries
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.PP
\fBxfce4-dict\fR [\fBoption\fP]  [\fBtext ...\fP]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
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.
.PP
Homepage: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict
.SH "OPTIONS"
If called without any arguments, the xfce4-dict main window is shown.
Any passed text argument(s) are used as search text.
.IP "\fB-d\fP, \fB\-\-dict\fP         " 10
Search the given text using a Dict server(RFC 2229).
.IP "\fB-w\fP, \fB\-\-web\fP         " 10
Search the given text using a web-based search engine.
.IP "\fB-t\fP, \fB\-\-text-field\fP         " 10
Grab the focus on the text field in the panel (has no effect if panel plugin is not loaded).
.IP "\fB-s\fP, \fB\-\-spell\fP         " 10
Check the given text with a spellchecker.
.IP "\fB-i\fP, \fB\-\-ignore-plugin\fP         " 10
Start stand-alone application even if the panel plugin is loaded.
.IP "\fB-c\fP, \fB\-\-clipboard\fP         " 10
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.
.IP "\fB-v\fP, \fB\-\-version\fP         " 10
Show version information.
.IP "\fB-?\fP, \fB-h\fP, \fB\-\-help\fP         " 10
Show help information and exit.
.PP
xfce4-dict supports all generic GTK options, a list is available on the help screen.
.SH "BUGS"
.PP
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 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.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
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.