Introduction

This repository contains a simple utilities to translate any selected text to desired language.

What's in repo

File translate_with_notification.sh contains script-wrapper over translate.sh that copies selection with xsel and passes it to translate.sh.

File translate.sh is stolen from the net :D, does translation over the internet.

How to install

If you are on Debian/Ubuntu/etc, you can use install.sh script provided here, it will copy the files into /usr/bin directory. Then you go to the final step of the instruction below.

Specific instructions may vary for others, but here is a general actions:

1. Change desired final language at the end of translate_with_notification.sh, in my case it is "ru".
2. Copy translate_with_notification.sh and translate.sh to directory listed in PATH, make them executable;
3. You may also like to change notification delivery scheme - if script doesn't work for you, consider changing notification-sending program(in my case(Debian) it is notify-send provided by libnotify-bin package).
4. In your desktop environment, configure desired shortcut to use translate_with_notification script.

Final thoughts

Translating using keystroke is a powerful feature - during reading Eng books it helps me with complex unknown constructions. I'd also like to see more powerful functionality - like with saving unknown words to some dictionary, make a quizzes on them, and so on. Probably, I'll reinvent translate script with a single Rust utility later. Or never :)