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Translate Any Text You Select On Your Linux Desktop With A Keyboard Shortcut And Notifications

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Anonymous
Mar 10, 2016

I recently stumbled upon an interesting tiny old script (which I’ve updated) which can translate any text you select. After highlighting the text, be it in a web browser, Libreoffice or PDF document and so on, upon using a keyboard shortcut, its translation is displayed in a desktop notification.

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