[xiphos-users] pop up message at start?

[Karl Kleinpaste]

oldschoolcowboy writes:
 > also Xiphos works way better when source built; instead binary installed;

All that can be said in response to that is that the Gentoo package 
maintainer must have messed up something.

A build is a build. If there's a difference in behavior between the 
result of your personal build vs the maintainer's build, someone has 
done something wrong.