Xarchiver Explained
Xarchiver is a front-end to various command line archiving tools for Linux and BSD operating systems, designed to be independent of the desktop environment. It is the default archiving application of Xfce and LXDE.[2] [3] [4] Deepin's archive manager is based on Xarchiver.
It uses the GTK+2 or GTK3 toolkit[5] to provide the program interface; therefore, it is capable of running on any system where GTK support exists. Many other applications also use the toolkit, so support is widespread among other Linux distributions, irrespective of their specific desktop solution.
Supported formats at this time with an appropriate installed program[6] are 7z, static libraries, apk, arj, bzip, bzip2, bzip3, cab, cb7, cbr, cbt, cbz, chm, compress, cpio, deb, docx, epub, exe (self-extracting), fbz, gzip, iso, jar, jsonlz4, lha, lzh, lrz, lz, lz4, lzma, lzop, mozlz4, odt, oxt, rar, rpm, rzip, snap, squashfs, tar, xpi, xz, zip, zpaq and zstd.[7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
It handles encrypted *.7z, *.arj, *.lrz, *.rar and *.zip archives.
Xarchiver uses the Direct Save Protocol XDS for drag and drop file saving.[13] The program acts as a front-end for various commonly installed libraries dealing with the supported compression formats.[14] [15] Xarchiver can't create archives whose archiver is not installed.
Currently, the Xfce master branch of Xarchiver is being continued at GitHub.
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Notes and References
- Web site: License . Xarchiver Project . 2014-12-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131121024603/http://xarchiver.sourceforge.net/doc/ch01s03.html . 21 November 2013 .
- Web site: Newton . Matthew . New Linux Arrivals . PC World . 28 March 2007 . 19 October 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080726042314/http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130110-page,2-c,linux/article.html . 26 July 2008 .
- Web site: Reasonably detailed review of Xarchiver at LinuxPedia . Linuxpedia.netsons.org . it . 19 October 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080709050834/http://linuxpedia.netsons.org/index.php/Xarchiver . 9 July 2008 .
- Web site: LXDE Component list . Lxde.sourceforge.net . 19 October 2011.
- Web site: Frank Lichtenheld . Xarchiver and GTK+2 . Packages.ubuntu.com . 19 October 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20071206040501/http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/x11/xarchiver . 6 December 2007.
- Web site: Chapter 3. Usage . xarchiver.xfce.org . [...] Xarchiver is a frontend [...] it can't create archives whose archiver is not available. . https://web.archive.org/web/20090629195522/http://xarchiver.xfce.org/doc/ch03s03.html . 29 June 2009.
- Web site: About Xarchiver – supported file formats . xarchiver.xfce.org . https://web.archive.org/web/20090629200239/http://xarchiver.xfce.org/doc/ch01.html . 29 June 2009.
- Web site: Review of Xarchiver at Software Verzeichnis . Heise.de . de . 19 October 2011.
- Web site: Xarchiver review in Ubuntu Weekly News #25 . 20 December 2006 . Lists.ubuntu.com . 19 October 2011.
- Web site: Software/Utilities/Compression . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080511162529/http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Utilities/Compression/ . 2008-05-11 . 2024-06-02 . LiNUXLiNKS.com . Xarchiver is a gtk+2 only frontend to zip,rar,tar,bzip2 and gzip. Future releases will support 7zip and distro based packages (rpm,deb). Xarchiver allows you to create,add, extract and delete files in the above formats..
- Web site: Debian Webmaster. Description of Xarchiver at Debian.org . Packages.debian.org . 19 October 2011.
- Web site: description of Xarchiver . Freshmeat.net . 19 October 2011.
- Web site: Drag-and-Drop file saving . Newplanetsoftware.com . 19 October 2011 . 22 October 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111022180117/http://www.newplanetsoftware.com/xds/ . dead .
- News: Series of Xarchiver screenshots . Softpedia . Linux.softpedia.com . 19 October 2011.
- Web site: Changelog for Xfce 4.4 with details of use of Xarchiver as integrated archive manager . Xfce.org . 16 January 2011 . 19 October 2011.
