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# dictpopup
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This is a very lightweight program to show a popup with the translation of the selected text. It uses [sdcv ](https://github.com/Dushistov/sdcv ) for the dictionary lookup and a slightly modified version of [herbe ](https://github.com/dudik/herbe ) to display the popup.
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## Dependencies
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sselp (can be replaced with xclip -o), sdcv. Optional: lynx for html support
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## Setup
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First setup [sdcv ](https://github.com/Dushistov/sdcv ) according to their github page.
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Then install with `sudo make install` . \
Uninstall with `sudo make uninstall`
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## Usage
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Call `dictpopup [html] [<WORD>]` .\
If no word as an argument is supplied, the selection is used.\
If the string `html` is supplied as the first argument, then html support will be enabled.\
The popup can be dismissed by clicking on it.
The styling can be changed in `config.h` and then recompile to apply.
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There is also a xresources patch from [herbe ](https://github.com/dudik/herbe )
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that you could try to apply if you like.
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`popup` can also be used as a standalone program to show the contents of stdin.
