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# dictpopup
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It's 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
xclip, sdcv
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## Setup
Compile with `make` and place `dictpopup` as well as `popup` in your PATH.
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## Usage
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call `dictpopup` to translate and display the popup of the selected text. The
popup can be dismissed by clicking on it.\
You can also use `popup` like `popup "Hello"` for other things if you want.\
The styling can be changed in `config.h` , but it has the be recompiled then.
There is also a xresources patch from [herbe ](https://github.com/dudik/herbe )
that you could try to apply.
