Reverso Linux

A Linux desktop translator using the Reverso translation API. Select text, press a hotkey, get translations with usage examples.

Features

• Persistent source & target language — saved to ~/.config/reverso-linux/config
• Translation options for short text (1–3 words) with frequency counts
• Usage examples — click a translation option to see sentence examples side by side
• 16 supported languages: english, russian, ukrainian, french, german, spanish, italian, portuguese, polish, dutch, arabic, hebrew, japanese, turkish, chinese, romanian, swedish

Dependencies

• libcurl — HTTP requests
• json-c — JSON parsing
• gtk3 — GUI
• pkg-config — build flags

Build & Install

make
sudo make install

Usage

CLI

reverso-linux hello world             # translate from stdin
wl-paste -p | reverso-linux           # pipe from clipboard, wl-paste is part of wl-clipboard
reverso-linux -t french hello world   # set target language
reverso-linux -h                      # help
reverso-linux -v                      # version

Compositor keybinding (Hyprland)

Add to ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf:

bind = SUPER, R, exec, wl-paste -p | reverso-linux

# windowrule = float on, match:class ^(reverso-linux)$

Press Win+R to translate the current clipboard selection.