Letters lag behind my keyboard strokes. Intrepid 32bit KDE 4.2

[Brendan]

On Thursday 19 February 2009, Steven Vollom wrote:
> > Okie dokie. Top is just a command one would run on the command line, but
> > you don't have to use that. "Krunner"  or the "Run command" should have a
> > button on it to launch the system monitor. You just have to figure out
> > what process on your computer is sucking up all the juice.
>
> Wow, top is a great command.  Thanks.  Xorg uses about 17%, krfb (whatever
> that is) uses about 10%, Plasma uses about 10%, Kmail uses 10 to 15%,
> Firefox uses about 15%, Dragon 9%.  That leaves 24%.  That should be enough
> to run the keyboard, shouldn't it?

Problem-solving for me would be to stop all the programs using resources and 
see if the problem goes away...