Ubuntu – Need Google Input Tools to type Telugu in Celtx

The tool that worked well for me is GXLiterate- A Google Transliteration Service based transliterator for OpenOffice.org for Indic Languages.

It's a libre office extension, but serves the purpose.

Cons: it does not provide an option to choose between transliteration suggestions, it directly translates to the language selected, sometimes with wrong translation but, most of the time, accurate transliteration.

I am enjoying the same in LibreOffice writer. It solved my problem, however it would be better if there were some shortcut to disable and enable the same.

I also tried XlitHindi, which was developed by CADD, but unfortunately it didn't work on LibreOffice 5; it opened but LibreOffice froze, so I uninstalled the extension and started using Gxliterate, which is working pretty well for me.

_{Editor's Note: This answer is Kanhiya's.}

The US International keyboard layout isn't designed for diacritics because the target language is English and English doesn't use diacritics (it should, at least for foreign words like fiancé or coupé, but it doesn't and it sometimes results in an incorrect pronunciation like "coupe" instead of "coupeh" - I'm looking at you US citizens, in the other side of the pound we do pronounce it correctly).

In order to use input languages requiring diacritics users must choose the "US International with dead keys" variant, with caveats:

• The apostrophe key is the same for the acute diacritic symbol. With "dead keys" you must press SPACE after the key.
• As above, quotation marks is used for diaeresis (umlaut) therefore if you want the quotation mark instead, you need to press SPACE after the key.
• As a general rule all the characters with diacritics are produced by a sequence of two keys, first the diacritic symbol then the letter - Example: à is obtained by pressing ` followed by a - the same way used with French, Spanish (and others) keyboard layouts.
• Other special characters aren't so obvious as the example above. For instance, for the character ç, used in Portuguese and Catalan, there are two ways: 1. AltGr+c or 2. ' folowed by c.