You can change the keyboard by accessing the available keyboards from the top panel. Step 4: Typing in Indian languages on Ubuntuīy default, English will be your typing language. You may have to restart your system for the changes to taken into effect. Now, all you have to do is search for your language, select it and hit “ Apply“. Here, you need to click on “ Install/Remove Languages”. Next, you will notice “ Language Support” window. This can be done easily from the settings.įrom within the “ Region and Language” menu, click on “ Manage installed Languages“. In addition to installing IBus, you also need to install the desired language to the system. Ubuntu Language Settings Step 3: Add the language to the system Selecting And Adding Languageįinally, you can see that our selected language has been added to the list of input sources. You could have chosen iTrans if you wanted the transliteration keyboard. Once you find the languages listed, select any of them (here, Hindi phonetic) and click on the “ Add” button.įor example, I chose the KaGaPa Phonetic keyboard in the screenshot below. Click on ‘ Other‘ to find the languages listed. Next, search for any language like ‘ Hindi’, or the language you want to use. You will now be asked ‘ Add an input source‘, just click on 3 vertical dotted button to proceed. Now use the ‘ +‘ below the “ Input sources to use” to add your desired language. Log out and log back in to refresh the session. So for that you can just copy-paste the text below (as shown in the screenshot below): ibus-daemon Ubuntu Adding Startup Applications Fill the details as shown in the screenshot below.įor the Name and Comment box, you can set your desired text. That’s it. Now add IBus to your startup applications. Open the terminal (ctrl+alt+t) and run the below command sudo apt install ibus-m17n Here, we will be using IBus to transliterate English to Indian regional languages i.e Hindi (to be specific). You can use IBus to type in your own language in most GUI applications. It’s called “Bus” because it has a bus-like architecture. The Intelligent Input Bus (IBus) is an input method framework for multilingual input in Unix-like operating systems. In other words, you have to make a compromise and keep the keyboard layout saved on your system to refer to it, specially when you are new to these keys. iTrans Hindi transliteration keyboard | image courtesy This is a pain because you need to know the keyboard shortcuts to type the intended words correctly. However, the transliteration keyboards in Linux do not allow you to choose between various possible words as Google does.
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