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frojnd

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Registered: 2008-09-20

Posts: 125

Openbox plus pcmanfm + ark?

Hello there.

I was wondering how can I achieve the same effect with openbox + pcmanfm as I can with KDE + konqueror. I'd like to have in pcmanfm when I right click on a file or directory in a menu options like: Compress here, Compress to, Compress as tar archive, Compress as zip archive, Compress as rar archive,...
I haven no idea how can I achieve this with pcmanfm and openbox so I asked here. What packages do I need to install or if I have to configure anything else... can you please point me what do I have to do?

miau

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 202

Re: Openbox plus pcmanfm + ark?

Maybe pcmanfm-mod from AUR is what you were looking for.

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: Openbox plus pcmanfm + ark?

PCmanFM does have "compress" and "decompress", but it's hardcoded to a few common compression formats only. It's where the lightweight-ness of PCmanFM comes from - what you see is what you get, and what you get is the basics. You can hack the source, it's quite easy to add new formats. If you want more or something that doesn't require source hacking, Thunar+Xarchiver is the way to go.

frojnd

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Registered: 2008-09-20

Posts: 125

Re: Openbox plus pcmanfm + ark?

Thank you aboth for reply. First I'm gonna check pcmanfm-mod from AUR. Problem is that I do this remotelly... via ssh. I have a feeling I need to setup remote X somehow...