In Chrome under Windows, I can press right control+right shift and the text direction in text fields and text boxes becomes right-to-left. But under Ubuntu, nothing happens.
In other programs (Gedit for example,) I can right-click then select Insert Unicode Control Character->RLM Right-to-left Mark to change the text direction, but that menu is not present when I right-click a text box in Chrome.
How can I change the text direction in Chrome?
Edit:
I tried Manually inserting a RLM Mark (a list is here) by holding control+shift then typing u followed by the hex code of the control character. Out of the seven listed (U+200E, U+200F, U+202A, U+202B, U+202C, U+202D, U+202E), three of them (U+200F, U+202B, U+202E) worked in Gedit, but not in Chrome.
) and LTR (
) buttons, which you can use as required
Best Answer
Using this open source extension provides a switch direction button that will added to your Google chrome and can switch text edits direction in any OS.
Disclaimer: I am publisher of the extension.
Update: Chrome now itself provides similar functionality on text edits context menu thus makes such extension somehow useless.