On a similar note to this question, I recently booted Ubuntu to recover a Windows partition, but couldn't in any way get the keyboard to register.
I recall back in 8.x that you could easily reach the on-screen keyboard (Virtual Keyboard?) via "Assistive Technologies". It seems to have disappeared since 9.x.
For future reference, how can I easily get to it? Recall that in this scenario I won't have a keyboard to enter terminal commands (e.g. to install xkbd or something of the like).
xvkbd is a small on screen keyboard that is just fantastic.
UPDATE: for installation:
untar the source in a directory, and move to the directory
If you wish to use genuine Xaw insead of Xaw3d, edit Imakefile and remove (or comment-out) #define XAW3D.
When you are installing xvkbd (for example) in very old systems, you may also want to remove #define XTEST and #define I18N to disable XTEST and internationalization facility respectively.
Run xmkmf; make install install.man
The only way to get an on-screen keyboard working, is by using a keyboard. Granted, it is easy to do — all you need to do is install onboard — but it is not possible to use Ubuntu without a keyboard.
I would be delighted to be corrected, and will accept any answer that gets an on-screen keyboard up using only the mouse.
For those who are in emergency and have only a mouse! right click on desktop, select open terminal here! when terminal opens, it writes some lines, for example:
To run a command as administrator (user "root"), ...
to write commands select each character in the above line and copy/paste it in the command line!
if you didn't find the required character, go and find the character in a file name! for example if you need character 'x' find it in name of some file and right click on file name and choose rename, then select the 'x' character, copy it and then paste it in the terminal, for 'Enter' select entire line and copy / paste it after your command.
