notitrans

[🇧🇷] Um script em shell que mostra uma notificação com uma tradução para o texto selecionado.

[🇺🇸] A shell script that shows up a notification with a translation for the selected text.

Dependencies

• notify-send (this tool is usually already installed on your system): sudo apt install libnotify-bin
• xsel: sudo apt install xsel
• translate-shell: sudo apt install translate-shell

How to use it

• [🇧🇷] Mova o script para um diretório cujo caminho já esteja presente na sua variável de ambiente $PATH;
• [🇺🇸] Move the script to a directory whose path is in your $PATH variable;

  • Example:

    git clone https://github.com/lyangmdrs/notitrans.git

    cd notitrans

    chmod +x notitrans

    sudo mv notitrans /usr/local/bin/

• [🇧🇷] Crie um novo atalho de teclado para executar o script;
• [🇺🇸] Create a new keyboard shortcut to run the script;
  • Example:

How to configure the target language

By default, the target language in the script is Portuguese 🇧🇷. To set another language you need to edit the script in the highlighted part below.

• notify-send -i emblem-default " Tradução:" "`xsel -o | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g' | trans -b -t pt`"

In this case pt is the code for Potuguese Language. You can see all the supported languages and their respective codes by typing trans -R in a terminal.

To set the script to translate for Spanish 🇪🇸, for example:

• notify-send -i emblem-default " Tradução:" "`xsel -o | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g' | trans -b -t es`"