dict_lookup - DICT Protocol Client

dict_lookup  reads  X  selection,  then open terminal emulator and run dict client in it allowing user to
       view content using pager.  It makes sense to configure launching dict_lookup on a  keyboard  shortcut  in
       the window manager.

dict_lookup  recognizes  the  following  environment variables.  The default value is specified in square
       brackets.

       D_AWK_PROG
              AWK interpreter to use.  [awk]

       D_XCLIP_PROG
              xclip application.  [xclip]

       D_XTERM_PROG
              xterm or equivalent terminal emulator.  [xterm]

       D_UTF8_LOCALE
              UTF-8 locale.  [firstavailableUTF-8localeonsystem]

       D_DICT_PROG
              Dictionary client program.  [dict]

       D_DICT_SERVER
              Option for dictionary client specifying the server.  [-hdict.org]

       D_DICT_PORT
              Option for dictionary client specifying the port.  [-p2628]

       D_DICT_DB_OPT
              Option for dictionary client specifying the database.  [-dfoldoc]

       D_XTERM_CLASS
              Option for terminal emulator specifying the class.  [-classXTerm]

       D_XTERM_NAME
              Option for terminal emulator specifying the name.  [-namexterm_dict]

       D_XTERM_TITLE
              Option for terminal emulator specifying the title.  [-titledict_lookup]

       D_TEXT_WIDTH
              Program calculating text width for given text.  [cyrillic_text_width]
              cyrillic_text_width doesn't work correctly for Japanese, Korean, Chinese and some other languages.

       D_TERM_X
              Terminal emulator X coordinate.  [+200]

       D_TERM_Y
              Terminal emulator Y coordinate.  [+200]

       D_TERM_H
              Terminal emulator height.  [+40]

       D_PAGER
              Pager.  [less-R]

       dict_lookup - DICT Protocol Client

-h     display help message.

       -xx   X coordinate of terminal emulator.

       -xY   Y coordinate of terminal emulator.

       -sWxH width and height of terminal emulator separated by 'x'.

       -qquery
              query, if it is specified, X selection is not read.

dict(1), less(1), xterm(1), dictd(8), http://www.dict.org,RFC2229

                                                 9 January 2011                                   DICT_LOOKUP(1)

dict_lookuop[options]