thunar-archive-plugin not working with Ark

rabcor · 2014-06-30 03:30:56

I'm trying to use thunar and ark together.

Drag'n'drop from Ark to Thunar does not work. (Drag'n'drop from Thunar to Ark does however work.)

Extract Here/Extract To from Thunar's context menu gives the following error:

Failed to extract files
No suitable archive manager found.

Desktop Environment/Window Manager is Enlightenment(18, official repository)

Please help

Last edited by rabcor (2014-06-30 03:31:54)

Inxsible · 2014-06-30 03:51:36

check logs

rabcor · 2014-06-30 05:38:06

What logs?

Inxsible · 2014-06-30 15:26:33

you should know where the logs are.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

rabcor · 2014-07-01 10:11:46

Yes I know where the logs are usually supposed to be. /var/log.

What logs? I don't find any thunar or ark log in /var/log

Last edited by rabcor (2014-07-01 10:12:19)

rabcor · 2014-07-01 14:49:21

I figured I might try seeing if I could get terminal output from the applications, I get nothing from thunar, but from ark

Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
kbuildsycoca4 running...
kbuildsycoca4(1717) KBuildSycoca::checkTimestamps: checking file timestamps
kbuildsycoca4(1717) KBuildSycoca::checkTimestamps: timestamps check ok
kbuildsycoca4(1717) kdemain: Emitting notifyDatabaseChanged ()

Object::connect: No such signal org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceAdded(QString)
Object::connect: No such signal org::freedesktop::UPower::DeviceRemoved(QString)
ark(1816) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"  refers to unknown mimetype  "application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroEnabled.12"

(that subclasses error I get spammed at me when i try to open an archive)

rabcor · 2014-07-01 18:30:32

I don't know what sort of black magic occurred (my guess is mime database update when I reinstalled chrome), but now thunar detects ark properly and tries to use it. It does however not work unless I fix the extraction commands in /usr/lib/xfce4/thunar-archive-plugin/ark.tap.

create)
        exec ark --add "$@" -f.zip
        ;;

extract-here)
        exec ark --batch --destination "$folder" --autosubfolder "$@"
        ;;

extract-to)
        exec ark --batch --dialog --destination "$folder" "$@"
        ;;

(And that is old, like really 2 years? and this is not fixed yet? I also had to find out on my own how to fix the "create archive thing, added to the above for anyone who needs it", I mailed XFCE support/feedback about this since I'm too lazy to create an account to commit to their git.)

I still don't have drag'n'drop working though. Created a thread on it here.

Last edited by rabcor (2014-07-11 20:53:01)

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#1 2014-06-30 03:30:56

thunar-archive-plugin not working with Ark

#2 2014-06-30 03:51:36

Re: thunar-archive-plugin not working with Ark

#3 2014-06-30 05:38:06

Re: thunar-archive-plugin not working with Ark

#4 2014-06-30 15:26:33

Re: thunar-archive-plugin not working with Ark

#5 2014-07-01 10:11:46

Re: thunar-archive-plugin not working with Ark

#6 2014-07-01 14:49:21

Re: thunar-archive-plugin not working with Ark

#7 2014-07-01 18:30:32

Re: thunar-archive-plugin not working with Ark

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