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#1 2009-02-17 14:58:35
- ShinChyn
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[SOLVED] Xarchiver or Squeeze in default Xfce4 ?
In Xfce4 official website, xarchiver is the proposed archive manager for Xfce4. But I pacman -S xfce4 and get squeeze as a archive manager. Why not xarchiver ?
However, if it can display a menu on a right click, say "Extract here", or such things, like 7-zip in WindowsXP, I guess it would be more convenient.
Last edited by ShinChyn (2009-03-15 13:14:02)
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#2 2009-02-17 18:35:09
- Inxsible
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Re: [SOLVED] Xarchiver or Squeeze in default Xfce4 ?
In Xfce4 official website, xarchiver is the proposed archive manager for Xfce4. But I pacman -S xfce4 and get squeeze as a archive manager. Why not xarchiver ?
However, if it can display a menu on a right click, say "Extract here", or such things, like 7-zip in WindowsXP, I guess it would be more convenient.
I always thought squeeze was the default extractor for Xfce. But XArchiver does have the Extract here functionality -- but not for all types of compressed files. I think its more dependent on the backend processes than the front-end. Xarchiver and Squeeze both are just front-ends for tar, bzip2,zip,unrar etc.
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#3 2009-02-19 03:24:26
- ShinChyn
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Re: [SOLVED] Xarchiver or Squeeze in default Xfce4 ?
I decide to use squeeze as the archive manager.
The problem that how to display a menu on a right click on file, say "Extract here" has been solved: I have found thunar-archive-plugin in Xfce4-goodies. After install that plugin, this problem is solved.
So many goodies in Xfce4-goodies I have never seen !
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#4 2009-02-19 05:13:01
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Re: [SOLVED] Xarchiver or Squeeze in default Xfce4 ?
Gotta use both. Squeeze does not yet support RAR passwords. Xarchiver does. The thunar-archive-plugin is not really necessary. You can use a couple of Thunar UCAs:
Create Archive Here: squeeze -n %N
Extract Archive Here: squeeze -x . %N
Last edited by adamlau (2009-02-19 05:15:17)
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