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.TH GOOGLIZER l 2002-03-24 Linux "User Manuals"
.SH NAME
googlizer \- GNOME panel launcher providing results of a Google search
.SH DESCRIPTION

googlizer is a panel launcher for the GNOME desktop. It takes the X
selection, sends it to the Google search engine (
.B http://www.google.com/
), and then passes the results to the 
user's preferred browser in GNOME. This browser then starts up and 
shows the results of the search. 

It is not invoked from the command line; but is added to the user's panel 
via the menu system. If this man page is installed, then presumably 
googlizer is installed too. To place it on a panel, add a launcher and 
specify the path to the googlizer binary as the command in the launcher 
options.

To use it, highlight text with the pointer, and then single-click 
button 1 on the googlizer icon. The browser specified in the user's
URL Handlers preferences will appear with the results of the search.

.SH OPTIONS

.B googlizer 
is designed to do one single thing. Therefore there are no
further preferences or command-line options. You could change the 
icon for the program, perhaps, but that's about it. 

.SH FILES

.TP
~/.gnome/Gnome
The browser invoked is that defined in the user's URL Handlers for
GNOME as default. This is reached via the control-center. The file
should not be edited by hand (but people do). 

.SH BUGS

Special alphabetical characters such as Icelandic thorn or any accented
characters (anything outside the range [A-Z][a-z]) arrive at Google 
mangled. This is not the fault of
.B googlizer
but can be very frustrating.

.SH AUTHORS

googlizer was written by Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>. 

This man page was written by Telsa Gwynne <hobbit@aloss.ukuu.org.uk>.

.SH SEE ALSO

.TP
ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/Software/Gnome/Googlizer/
Source

.TP
http://www.linux.org.uk/~telsa/BitsAndPieces/googlizer.html
Information from pre-man-page days.