linux framebuffer use instead of normal x and whatnot

[thehardcore8]

Since I use an asus eee 900a, which has a crappy mouse/touchpad (laptops have issues with that anyways but this clicker is especially bad) and so I'm looking into setting up an interface using the linux framebuffer, and ideally no mouse. I am not looking to use X as compiling it on lfs will look like a total pain. So what kinds of apps work for the framebuffer and are good for it? The categories I'm looking at are:

word doc processing
pdf viewing
image viewing
image editing (where you can see the image while you're working on it)
web browsing (text mode taken care of with links2, but graphical needed)
music format conversion (something like soundKonverter with all kinds of formats)
music editing (may be a really tough one lol...)
video editing
video viewing (taken care of with mplayer)
bit to the torrent (w/ features like encryption, proxies, etc.)
gnutella (with anon features of graphical clients)

What apps are good for these categories?

[reed9]

I am not looking to use X as compiling it on lfs will look like a total pain.

Isn't the whole process of building LFS a total pain.

Sadly, linux doesn't have many options for actual word processing in the console.
Two console word processors Motho ke motho ka botho
Lightweight Linux: Wordgrinder -- Word Processor for the Linux Console | Linux for Old Computers

pdf viewing is also a pain in the console. The only option I've ever found is fbgs, part of the fbida project.

fbida again for image viewing works nicely, I think.

Image editing...I'm unaware of an app where you can see the image as you edit it. I assume in making that distinction you are aware of imagemagick.

links2 is graphical... Just pass the -g flag to run the GUI in the framebuffer.

Transcode & MEncoder are both extremely powerful cli audio and video processing tools. There are some cli frontends for these and other tools. Never looked into it much though.

rtorrent or aria2 for bittorrent.

And last mutella.

Command Line Interface Apps - CLI-Apps.org

Frankly, I recommend going with a tiling wm. They are highly configurable, lots of keybindings, and once you have them down, you can almost completely eliminate mouse use. But you would need X.

[GNU-Fan]

Depending on your video hardware (Intel good -- NVidia bad) you should also consider using DirectFB.

This video system makes more use of hardware capabilities (acceleration) and for GTK exists a DirectFB-backend. This means GTK applications (Firefox!, gtk-gnutella) will be able to run on it.

[egan]

For "word processing" I would just use LaTeX, but if you are new to it, it might not be the best solution.