Who would have thought that I would ever use an on-screen keyboard 
Why would I want to? My off-screen keyboard serves me just fine, thank you But, if you ever need to e.g. hold your three week old son in one hand and type a message at the same time with the laptop keyboard just out of reach of the other hand… Well, never mind the reason, the Ubuntu repository includes (and installs by default) an on-screen keyboard – onboard.
There’s a full keyboard with function keys and numeric keypad (toggled by a single click) and there are even a few nice additions – a set of 9 snippet/macro keys, 4 keyboard layouts and a scanning key selection. More than I need anyway
