To achieve this result, you have to follow a few straightforward steps: This should work system wide in all GTK applications as soon as you launch onboard. The “x” button allows you to close Onboard while the “En” button allows you to change the language of spell checker and word predictor. You can drag edges of any Onboard keyboard layout to resize it, so you can resize the spell bar as well. Using its layout editing feature, you can remove everything from it so that only the spell-check bar is visible, as shown in the screenshot below: Now if you are using Onboard on a desktop PC, you may not need this huge keyboard sticking at bottom as you may be using a hardware keyboard to type words. During my usage of Onboard, I found that the Onboard’s spelling suggestion bar works great in all GTK applications while its support for Qt and other non-GTK applications is hit or miss. You can click on the arrow symbol to get more spelling suggestions. Here it suggested “mango” for a mistyped word “mngo”. The left part of the row shows spell-checking suggestions. The middle part of the top row shows auto-completion and next word predictions. Launch Onboard and type a word in a text editor. Further information about its packages can be found here. You can install Onboard in other Linux distributions from their official repositories. You can do so in Ubuntu by executing the command mentioned below: To run LanguageTool in Linux, you will need to install Java first. You can download various add-ons that work with certain limits from its homepage. LanguageTool source code is available on GitHub. You can still download it from its file server using this direct link or browse all downloadable files from here. The website used to show an option to download desktop versions in the past, but not anymore. Strangely enough, LanguageTool maintainers never mention the desktop version on its website though it is very actively being developed. To get a build of LanguageTool that runs offline on various operating systems without any limits, you will have to download its desktop version. It provides add-ons for FireFox and Chrome browsers as well as plugins for document editing software like LibreOffice, OpenOffice, Google Docs and Microsoft Word. It is the best free alternative to premium grammar correction service “Grammarly”, though it comes with its own premium cloud based service that requires a monthly subscription plan to remove limits. It also provides suggestions to correct them automatically or manually. LanguageTool can parse any text in these supported languages, detect spelling mistakes, poor sentence construction and grammatical errors using various algorithms. It supports over 20 languages, some of them are in development and have limited support. LanguageTool is an open source and cross-platform spell checking and grammar correction software. This article, however, mainly focuses on standalone spell checker applications that give you much more freedom to parse and fix spellings in your content and work with multiple applications. to get correct spellings for your text based content. Note that you can use integrated spell checkers in applications like LibreOffice, Chrome, FireFox, AbiWord etc. These applications mainly provide support for English language with a few of them having options for other languages as well. This article will cover a list of useful grammar and spelling correction tools available for Linux.
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