artha
Once launched, it monitors for a preset hot-key combination. When some text is selected on any window and the hot-key is pressed, it pops-up with the word looked-up. Should the user prefer passive notifications, this can be done by enabling the notifications option.
When the term looked for is vague/not known, then either the search can be broadened with the use of regular expressions (*, ?, etc.) in the search string or spelling suggestions when a term is incorrect.
For regular expressions based search to work, wordnet-sense-index package is required.
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Works great, the hotkey feature is appreciated. It's default colors as I've setup my system makes the text impossible to read without highlighting. It would be fantastic is there was a preferences setting for that.
Artha is one of those essential utility desktop apps that I rely on. I wish it could be included in the Mint default apps.
The function that will define words when the hot key is pressed is so impressive. If only it had a pronunciation function it wpuld fave been perfect.
Best dictionary and thesaurus in my opinion for linux, easy to use but is missing word prenouncation that would make it excellent.
The best thing about it is you can have it start at startup and then whenever you meet a word you don't know, just select it - in any application, and press the hotkey combination (Control + Alt + W by default) - and you get an adequate definition.
Love it! So useful, I'm want yo marry it. Just wished there was an option to make notifications transient.
Works fine, though I wish there were an unabridged dictionary available for linux users.
