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I would like to be able to use the on screen keyboard to type in Arabic on my Ubuntu 20.4 machine. I added the language to the input source and it works if I use my actual keyboard. The problem is the on screen keyboard does not change its language even though I chose a different one from the keyboard layout. The language simply stays in English even though Arabic is listed on the language option in the on screen keyboard. It would not change. I restarted gnome but it did not work either.

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Reset to default
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  • Disable the Screen Keyboard
  • Switch to the Arabic keyboard layout
  • Enable the Screen Keyboard

That should give you an Arabic on screen keyboard.

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  • Thank you very much for your answer. Unfortunately it did not work either following the instructions you gave me. I also added German and the the Germany keyboard I get on the onscreen keyboard is not correct (It does not have äüöß)
    – Fadi
    Oct 7, 2020 at 18:32
  • @Fadi: Weird. As regards German, you need to long press a to see e.g. ä, long press s to see ß, etc.
    – Gunnar Hjalmarsson
    Oct 7, 2020 at 18:44
  • @Fadi: How do you go about disabling the Screen Keyboard?
    – Gunnar Hjalmarsson
    Oct 7, 2020 at 18:46
  • I configured a shortcut to turn the on-screen keyboard on and off. I did that in the settings --> keyboard shortcuts --> turn on screen keyboard on or off. When I choose the language in the language menu, I can get Arabic and it works well but the on-screen keyboard is not changing at all. I noticed it only works when I choose English or German. As for German, I did not know that I have to long press the buttons to get the special characters. Thank you for that
    – Fadi
    Oct 8, 2020 at 7:58

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