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Quickly lookup words on the fly and offline

• On the fly word lookup
• Works offline (first run will require internet to download dictionary data)
• Copy definitions and examples to clipboard with just a click
• Word definitions
• Examples of word sentences
• Synonyms
• Explore synonyms from each word

Demo and How to use

QuickWord can be used by manual lookup and via a keyboard shortcut to open it on the fly.

Select a word and hit the a keyboard shortcut to get the lookup. Recommended shortcut: ⌘ + D

• Manual entry of words
• Selecting a text

Installation

QuickWord is availble for installation in the following Linux Distributions

Build using flatpak

• requires that you have flatpak-builder installed
• flatpak enabled
• flathub remote enabled

flatpak-builder --user --force-clean --install build-dir com.github.hezral.quickword.yml

Build using meson

Ensure you have these dependencies installed

• python3
• python3-gi
• libgranite-dev
• python-xlib
• xclip
• pynput

Download the updated source here, or use git:

git clone https://github.com/hezral/quickword.git
cd clips
meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja build
sudo ninja install

The desktop launcher should show up on the application launcher for your desktop environment if it doesn't, try running

com.github.hezral.quickword

Thanks/Credits

• Wordnet Definitions are based on Wordnet.
• Ideogram Inspired by it. Also borrowed/forked some code.
• ElementaryPython This started me off on coding with Python and GTK.