Ubuntu / Kubuntu On-Screen Keyboard

Recently I wanted to use a stylus in conjunction with an on-board keyboard, sadly I must admit that the MS Windows equivalent seemed better.

Anyway...

Try the program:

onboard

Supposedly gok has more features and handles menus, but for what I wanted to do with it onboard was better.

Firefox 4 - Uses too many resources

There is a default setting for Firefox that causes it to almost peg a Core2 Duo mobile processor. The setting can be changed at the location indicated below.

Edit (Main Menu) > Preferences (Menu) > Advanced (Tab) > General (SubTab)

Uncheck "Use hardware acceleration when available"


After the setting was changed I went from having CPU usage from over 80% to less than 20%.

Also, memory usage of Firefox dropped to around 11% after the change with 10 tabs open.