Here's a couple of other things I do as well that you might want to consider.

This removes the cursor:
echo -e \033[?25l'

This sets your Terminal display:
stty cols 80
stty rows 24

Since I'm setting the rows at 24, I can use the 25th row as my keyboard.

This stops the hildon keyboard from coming up if I touch the screen:
gconftool-2 --set -t bool /system/osso/af/keyboard-attached true

See if you can't install Xkbd or have someone compile this for you.

That way, you could have shortcuts on the screen.


I also use xbindkeys.

Since ADOM uses 25 rows, I have one of my keys mapped to kill the touchscreen keyboard so I can see what's underneath it for 1 second, then it puts the keyboard back on the screen again

Xmodmap will let you change any of your hardware keys if you would like to use those.

For scripts, if you do decide on having shortcuts on the screen, look into installing xte.

xte will type out whatever you defined for each of your shortcut keys.

That's about all I can think of for now.