1-) You may try hardware accelerator wich will make hildon-desktop smoother BUT it is known to be unstable so if it caused any hildon-dekstop crashs or reboots simply disable it To enable it : use any text editor to edit /etc/powervr.d/hildon-desktop.ini and change WSEGL_UseHWSync=0 to WSEGL_UseHWSync=1 so : Code: sudo gainroot leafpad /etc/powervr.d/hildon-desktop.ini