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: 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)