Ubuntu word translation

• install xsel,sudo apt install xsel
• Install translate-shell

Then copy the following code into a notify-send.sh file,

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Need https://github.com/soimort/translate-shell installed.

se=$(xsel -o)
re=$(/usr/bin/trans -b :zh "$se")
notify-send "$se" "$re" -i accessories-dictionary -t 2000

chmod a+x notify-send.sh

Then add a shortcut key in the system settings to run the notify-send.sh script.

Open any software, select a word, press the shortcut key, and a system notification will pop up to display the translation.

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seThe selected word is stored in the script, and the retranslation result is stored.

Using translate-shell is one way to get translations, but other ways are also possible. For example, use wget to call the API of Google Translate or Baidu Translate, or write a Python script to open the Google Translate URL, parse the page to get the translation, and so on.

Using system notifications to display translation results is just a way to display translation results. You can also write a Python script to display the results using Tkinter, and destroy the window when the mouse leaves?

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2018.5.3