This page described the behavior of Xastir prior to 2.2.4, with a note
about how it will change in 2.2.4. Since we have released 2.2.4,
invert that --- describe 2.2.4's behavior and mention that older
versions were different.
I initially said in this file that xpra should be installed from a
system's package manager. Almost no system has an up-to-date version,
and some are many years out of date and with security flaws.
The xpra authors have a whole diatribe about it, and advise users NOT
to use packaged versions.
Fix the guidance here.
If one has multiple monitors configured as a very large desktop,
Xastir's new behavior will cause the startup window to be 70% of the
combined desktop real estate. That could be undesirable, too. Tell
the user about it and point out the -geometry option can be their
friend, too.
It looks like we'll have the small-startup-window issue fixed before
2.2.4 and so it's safe to put this in here for now.
Remember to clean up this file after the PR is merged and when the release
happens.
Almost no Linux distro has an up-to-date xpra package, and xpra
developers caution against using them --- both for missing feature
issues and for security problems. Change this file to reflect that it
is ill-advised to use them, and point them at the Xpra-org download
site instead.
Xastir packages in package management systems often lag development by
as much as a release or two, at their best. This means that bug
fixes we've worked our butts off on don't get propagated to binary
packages for a long time --- sometimes years.
Encouraging users to build from source has always been our thing.
