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# suckless_dictpopup
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.
This is a very lightweight program to show a popup with the dictionary entry of the selected text. It uses [sdcv](https://github.com/Dushistov/sdcv) for the dictionary lookup and optionally, a slightly modified version of [herbe](https://github.com/dudik/herbe) to display the popup.
![image](https://files.catbox.moe/dx3hf5.png)
## Dependencies
most of them might be already installed.
notice that most of them might be already installed, they are:
sselp , sdcv, perl
### Currently tested on:
- Gnu/Linux
- FreeBSD
## Setup
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Then install with `sudo make install`. \
Uninstall with `sudo make uninstall`
If you would like to automatically lookup a word on every selection, then take a look at the following script: https://github.com/GenjiFujimoto/shell-scripts/blob/main/selautolookup
If you would like to automatically lookup a word on every selection (recommended) , then take a look at the following script: <br> https://github.com/KonstantinDjairo/suckless_dictpopup/blob/main/daemon-popup <br>
<br>
This is not meant to be running all the time, since it looks up everything that goes into the clipboard.\
Disable when using mpvacious for example.
## Usage
Call `dictpopup [<WORD>]`.\
If no word as an argument is supplied, the selection is used.\
Bind to a shortcut \
To add a keyboard shortcut, you can use options of your WM or DE. You can also use sxhkd. \
The popup can be dismissed by clicking on it.
Here is a snippet from my ~/.config/i3/config showing how to bind `dictpopup` to a keyboard shortcut. \
```console
# Run dictpopup
bindsym $mod+c exec --no-startup-id dictpopup
```
The styling can be changed in `config.h` and then recompile to apply.
There is also a xresources patch from [herbe](https://github.com/dudik/herbe)
that you could try to apply if you like.