HOW TO TYPE MALAYALAM IN UBUNTU

                 In windows we can have so many ways to type documents in our regional language Malayalam. Varamozhi, keyman, ISM, other government provided softwares are available in Windows. But what goes in Linux , its partially or totally none in ubuntu software repository. Varamozhi installer may work if you have luck. Without third party softwares we can simply type Malayalam in ubuntu Linux. 

        Here I'm trying to explain how to do this, simply we can say its possible by adding support for Malayalam. For that go to system settings (here I describes things by ubuntu 11.10) then choose language support there choose install/remove languages > choose Malayalam. This will install additional Malayalam fonts to your computer. Then from system settings choose keyboard, this will show a dialog box by default it shows keyboard layouts, now you have only single layout that can be see there English. Below this box there will be some buttons to add/remove layouts. Click on + to add new keyboard layout, and choose Malayalam. 

         Now you can click close button thats it you done it. To test all are correct look at notification area for a keyboard symbol and marked as EN. Click on it and you can see Malayalam also select Malayalam now en replace with ML. 

        Type in Libreoffice writer by choosing a Malayalam font for additional help you can also use either show current layout in notification area or on screen keyboard from Accessibility in system settings.