gnome-dictionary(1) General Commands Manual gnome-dictionary(1)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 definitions 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 Hov-
inen (<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>.
SEE ALSO dict(1), dictd(8), http://www.dict.org/, RFC 2229
gnome-utils 2.13.4 Jan 2 2005 gnome-dictionary(1)
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gnome-about(1) User Commands gnome-about(1)NAME
gnome-about - display GNOME introductory information
SYNOPSIS
gnome-about [--gnome-version] [gnome-std-options]
DESCRIPTION
The GNOME introductory dialog displays a list of the GNOME contributors, and provides links to some useful GNOME websites.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
--gnome-version Display information on this GNOME version.
gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5).
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Displaying the GNOME introductory information
example% gnome-about
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully
>0 Application exited with failure
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/gnome-about
Executable for GNOME introductory information display.
/usr/share/gnome-about/gnome-version.xml
XML source of GNOME version, build date and introductory text for the application.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-panel |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Volatile |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO attributes(5), gnome-std-options(5)
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.
NOTES
The gnome-version.xml file format is classified as Volatile and its stability should not be relied upon.
Written by Mark McLoughlin, updated by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2003, 2006, 2007.
SunOS 5.11 09 Nov 2007 gnome-about(1)
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