Xarchiver

Xarchiver is a free and well known archive manager application that provides Xfce users with a lightweight and easy to use solution for handling various types of archives under any open source Linux-based operating systems.

Integrates with the Xfce desktop environment

It is distributed as a standalone application that can be used in any other open source desktop environment, not only Xfce, especially because its graphical user interface is designed with the GTK+ framework.

Talking about the application’s user interface, we can mention that it’s quite familiar for users who used to work with the File Roller software, which is integrated into the controversial GNOME desktop environment.

Features at a glance

The application’s navigation functionality uses mimetype icons, it can add comments to existing or new archives, list archives as Plain Text or HTML files. create solid archives, and generate self-extracting binaries from either zip, rar or 7-zip archives.

It can also supports copy, paste, rename and cut actions within files of several archives, provides users with a modern, tabbed user interface, and supports drag and drop via the XDS (X Direct Save Protocol) protocol.

Supports a wide range of archive types

By default, it supports tar, gzip, 7-zip, bzip2, lzma, arj, lha, rar, lzop, and zip archives, and can also extract deb and rpm binary files. It can automatically detect if the rar, zip and arj archives are password protected, and provides the ability to encrypt passwords for 7-zip, rar, arj and zip archives.

Bottom line

If GNOME didn’t had the File Roller application, we can bet that users would have used Xarchiver as their default archive manager. Even if it can replace File Roller, it will not integrate itself in the right-click context menu of GNOME.

Weather you use the Xfce desktop environment or a more lightweight one, such as LXDE, Openbox or Fluxbox, you can install Xarchiver to manage archives on your open source Linux-based operating system.

What is new in this release:

• Closed a lot of bugs thanks to the work of Frederick Guerin.

What is new in version 0.5.3:

• Full RAR5 support
• Full XZ, TAR.XZ support
• Full Test/Verify support
• check-for-password-protected-files-on-double-click
• default-archive-format
• drag-n-drop_escaped_path
• fix_7z_support
• fix-segfault-non-existent-archive-cmdl-switch-x
• rpm2cpio
• segfault-open-with
• mimetype
• fix-icon-update
• fix-multiextract
• fix-unrar-can-add

What is new in version 0.5.2:

• Allow bzip2/lzop/gzip/lzma compressed files to be created through drag and drop.
• Fixed seg-fault when drag and drop to the sidebar.
• Fixed double entries display when adding to tar only archives.
• Changed suffix for tar.lzop to tar.lzo.
• Changed lzop suffix to lzo.
• Made the Options tab in the add dialog to be grayed out when using file compressors like bzip2 and gzip.
• Fixed fixed size of the iconview in the pref dialog.
• Fixed reset of the temp directory to use back to /tmp.
• Fixed bug when adding to rar archives with password.
• Made the password field to work when extracting with the -e switch a password protected archive.
• Fixed bug when adding with the thunar archive plugin.
• Fixed missed deletion of files with tar.lzop compressed archives.
• Enabled password field in the extract dialog when using the -e switch.
• Fixed disabled buttons after creating a new archive.

What is new in version 0.5.1:

• Added support to lzop.
• ixed bug when adding with tar.
• Updated turkish translation.

What is new in version 0.5.0:

• This is the changelog showing the changes occurring from 0.5.0rc1 to 0.5.0 stable:
• Greek translation update for xarchiver
• Fixed mv boring error when the same files are extracted pathless.
• Fixed inability to extract to a path containing spaces.
• Fixed GUI issues and seg-fault with the progress bar window.
• Updated ukranian translation.
• Fixed "file not found error" when extracting an archive which path is not absolute.
• Translation updates and additions - de es ku tr
• Fixed bug #4546.
• Fixed bug #4535.
• Update Finnish translations.
• Updated documentation.
• Updated swedish translation.
• Updated documentation.
• Updated en_GB translation.
• Fixed problem when adding files with copy and paste in archive directories.
• Fixed crash when deleting a child directory and then going back with the navigations arrows.
• Removed an unused variable in deb.c.
• Translations updates for ja and nb_NO
• Updated documentation for reflecting the changes in the 0.5 release.
• Fixed Multi-Extract dialog to accept file which are not archives.
• Fixed uncorrect archive tree display in the sidebar when cut & paste.
• Fixed tar extraction problem when the file is in the archive root directory.
• Fixed seg-fault in bzip2.c when opening archives without path.
• Restored single extraction from RPM packages.
• Translations updates and additions HUGE
• Xarchiver Basque translation update
• Updated hungarian translation
• Fixed bug in deb.c causing wrong filename when the number of the day of data.tar.gz is less than 10.
• Fixed bug in deb.c and lha.c causing incorrect uncompressed size.
• Fixed regression when adding files to the archive.
• Restored "File not found" message when opening a not existing files.
• Changed strtoll to g_ascii_strtoull for avoiding crashes on 64 bit platforms. Thanks to Bernhard Frohlich for pointing it out.
• Fixed bug causing the directory only to remain inside zip archives when deleting a directory.
• Fixed another tar error when using FreeBSD, thanks to Bernhard Frohlich for testing Xarchiver with FreeBSD.
• Fixed inability to extract files from tar-compressed archives without path.
• Fixed inability to extract files in the directory when selecting or dragging it.
• Fixed tar error when opening files from tar-compressed archives under FreeBSD.
• Fixed issues when deleting the temp dir whith the cmd-line switches.
• Fixed inability to extract directories in the archive with drag and drop.
• Symbolic links stored in lha archives are now displayed correctly.
• Fixed inability to add files in archive directory through the sidepane with drag and drop.
• Fixed crash when dropping for the second time an icon in the sidepane and the row expands.

What is new in version 0.5.0 RC1:

• Bugfixes and enhancements were made.

What is new in version 0.5.0 Beta 2:

• Fixed inability to open files from the archive when they are inside subdirectories.
• Paste option in context menu is disabled when right clicking in the same archive.
• Fixed gui freeze when pasting files from encrypted archives.
• Fixed extraction and view of a bzip2 compressed file.
• Removed functions xa_archive_operation_finished() and xa_check_child_for_error_on_exit().
• Fixed missed extraction with gzip and bzip2 compressed files.
• Made the open-with-dialog to use the custom command.
• Reverted extract dialog to the one used in the release 0.4.6.
• Added a sexy-icon in the entry widgets of the extract and multi-extract dialogs.
• Fixed gui freeze with "Open with" dialog when reading desktop files with wrong encoding.
• Fixed seg fault with switch -d from cmd-line.
• Fixed "file not found error" when deleting everything from arj archives.
• Modified xa_recurse_local_directory() in string_utils.c to avoid bad behaviour with arj archiver (what a mess...)
• Fixed seg-fault when archive->working_dir is NULL in string_utils.c.
• Fixed inability to view files from tar and tar compressed archives.
• Fixed behaviour with the up and left arrow buttons.
• Get rid of some unused functions in archive.c.
• Made the "Allow subdirs with drag and drop" option to work.
• Avoid returning an allocated string in xa_strip_current_working_dir_from_path() in string_utils.c.
• Added a further option in the pref dialog in the Advanced option.
• Fixed bug #4324 and bug #1721416 on sourceforge bug tracking page.
• Get rid of useless code in tar.c.
• Fixed extraction in tar.c.

What is new in version 0.4.6:

• Fixed code in support.c to load the images when installing the software.
• Renamed png icons to make them freedesktop compliant.

Requirements:

• gtk+