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.