This is a quick hack to get a panel button to show the on screen keyboard since it's hard to activate it from the status area on a touch display. Installation: Check out the extension: git clone git://honk.sigxcpu.org/git/gnome-shell-oskb-extension.git ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/OnScreenKeyboardButton@sigxcpu.org Activate it: gsettings set org.gnome.shell enabled-extensions "['OnScreenKeyboardButton@sigxcpu.org']