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Bug 511745 - gnome-dictionary doesn't print to command line
gnome-dictionary doesn't print to command line
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-utils
Classification: Deprecated
Component: gdict
2.32.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-utils Maintainers
gnome-utils Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-01-24 10:07 UTC by Dirk.R.Gently
Modified: 2011-01-29 18:45 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.31/2.32



Description Dirk.R.Gently 2008-01-24 10:07:23 UTC
Please describe the problem:
gnome-dictionary "--no-window" variable is broke.

gnome-dictionary --no-window --look-up word

returns:

See gnome-dictionary --help for usage

I've tried moving the variables to no effect.


System info:

Portage 2.1.4_rc7 (default-linux/ppc/ppc32/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.2.2, glibc-2.7-r0, 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 ppc)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 ppc 740/750
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:46:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.5.1-r4
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc ~ppc"
CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=750 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=750 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/home/randk/.portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /home/randk/.portage-local"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aac acl alsa apm ati berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdrom cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode fam firefox freetype ftp gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kerberos ldap mad midi mikmod mime mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nodocs nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl png ppc pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl ssl svg tcpd tiff timidity truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis wifi xcb xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="powermac" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="mach64"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS


Steps to reproduce:
1. gnome-dictionary --no-window --look-up word
2. 
3. 


Actual results:
See gnome-dictionary --help for usage

No output beside this is produced.

Expected results:
quick - means fast.

Does this happen every time?
Y

Other information:
Comment 1 Allan Day 2008-07-20 19:07:00 UTC
Hi Dirk,

Yes, I can reproduce this on my system also. Since I have confirmed the bug, I'm changing its status to new.
Comment 2 Emmanuele Bassi (:ebassi) 2011-01-29 18:45:18 UTC
[there's no need to update the status of the bug: I assume that any unconfirmed bug is a valid bug report]

I've removed this functionality from gnome-dictionary in master; there are better ways of getting a word definition from the console.

using:

  gnome-dictionary <word> <word> <word> ...

will still work, though.