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.