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

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: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict

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 0.6.0						 December 31, 2009						     XFCE4-DICT(1)