man gnome-dictionary (Commandes) - Look up words on dictionaries
NAME
gnome-dictionary - Look up words on dictionaries
SYNOPSIS
gnome-dictionary
gnome-dictionary [options]
or select Dictionary from the Accessories submenu of the Applications menu.
DESCRIPTION
GNOME Dictionary provides dictionary definitions of words, using a dictionary source.
For full documentation see the GNOME Dictionary online help.
OPTIONS
- --look-up word
- Looks up the specified word using the pre-defined dictionary source.
- -s source or --source source
- Uses the specified source for looking up words. This does not affect the global settings.
- -l or --list-sources
- Lists all the sources available.
- -n or --no-window
- Using this switch with the --look-up will print the defintions found on the console without launching the GUI.
- --help
- Display help information.
CONFIGURATION
All the configuration is handled using GConf.
AUTHOR
GNOME Dictionary was originally written by Spiros Papadimitriou (<spapadim+@cs.cmu.edu>), Mike Hughes (<mfh@psilord.com>) and Bradford Hovinen (<hovinen@udel.edu>).
Emmanuele Bassi (<ebassi@gmail.com>) rewrote it from scratch.
This manual page was originally written by Jochen Voss <voss@mathematik.uni-kl.de>.