README.md

Lexidest

A word meaning finder daemon for Linux!!

Lexidest = Lexi(word: in Greek) + idest(meaning: in Latin)

# First check that jq and xclip are installed or not
# jq is a json parsing tool and xclip is a tool for clipboard
sudo apt install jq
sudo apt install xclip
#For cloning by HTTPS
git clone --shallow-submodules https://github.com/Jenil2910/Lexidest.git

#For cloning by SSH
git clone --shallow-submodules git@github.com:Jenil2910/Lexidest.git

mv Lexidest ~/.lexidest
cd ~/.lexidest
make
chmod +x script.sh
./lexidest.out

Now get the meaning of any word by selecting it.

Also note that you can define it as a command by putting the line given below in your ~/.bashrc file

alias lexidest="~/.lexidest/lexidest.out"

You can also put ~/.lexidest/lexidest.out in ~/.xprofile. So that lexidest will start at the login time.

Killing lexidest

If it got stuck at any point you can kill the process by killall lexidest.out