Tutorials

https://github.com/notro/fbtft/wiki/Framebuffer-use http://www.armadeus.com/wiki/index.php?title=FrameBuffer http://www.robmeerman.co.uk/unix/256colours http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/fbterm-birth-of-the-cool-for-the-console/

Setup

Stop the xserver. On Ubuntu you can stop the display manager with sudo stop lightdm

fbterm, qingy

Hacking

vim or emacs, whatever.

Time tracking

worklog

File browsing

ranger

Version control

• tig
• git

Internet connection management

Power management

battery status, suspent/hibernate, screen/keyboard backlight

(mostly vendor specific)

Browse the internet

w3m, elinks, … ? one that can render graphics in terminal mode! w3m-img

links: scroll down ^N, scroll up ^P

Watch videos and images

mplayer with direct rendering? vlc? no need for *2ascii

Workspace management

tmux

Communication

mutt finch - messaging (uses stuff from pidgin)

File / document viewers

lesspipe - for PDF, or probably even more cacaview - view images as ASCII dvifb - dvi renderer on framebuffer fim - ascii art image viewer fimgs - document viewer (pdf, …) tpp - text presentation program fbv - document viewer fbgrab - screenshot

Finances

termcoin

Hacks

TERM=fbterm fbterm

TERM=fbterm vi

TERM=fbterm mutt

tmux ? sc - spreadsheet