I use Xournal to give lectures and do various other tasks. So far it's taken a little adjustment to write using my wacom tablet but it works fantastically.
My only complaint is the cursor. Xournal appears to override the system defined cursor with a dot cursor. The dot cursor is too small for me to reliably see. Is there a way to adjust the size of the cursor or even give it a different icon?
I've checked the user manual
http://xournal.sourceforge.net/manual.html
My system:
ubuntu studio 12.04
xfce desktop
xournal: 0.4.6~pre20110721-1build1