This tutorial will show you how to write Arabic & Latin on GNU/Linux especially Ubuntu, Trisquel, and elementary OS so you can switch between them easily at any time. In particular, we will use built-in keyboard layout called Arabic Buckwalter beside the English US one here. They will appear as selections on system tray on your desktop panel. This way, you can write documents and have chat on the net with both Latin and Arabic letters. I take these 3 distros as example means you can practice this on any other GNU/Linux systems that also use GNOME3, MATE, and Pantheon desktops. Let's go!

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GNOME provides us easy way to add some different keyboard layouts and quickly change between then easily. This allows us to quickly switch English standard keyboard into Japanese or Chinese or Arabic or any other keyboard language set by a simple click on the top panel. Use this on your GNOME when you need to type some letters or any writing in Katakana, Pinyin, or another alphabet systems.

We can easily change our keyboard layout in Linux by Terminal commands. It is easier and faster at many times compared to GUI. You can change layout by just up or down arrow key. Remember, many cases happened when people change their layouts and they can't revert them back. Avoid it by number 1 step below.