Xarchiver

Development and FAQ

FAQ

Why are ace archives not supported?
Because for some reason there is no support on Linux for creating ace archives, only extracting them. When someone develops full support for ace archives I will add them to Xarchiver.
How can I create an archive with some files password protected and others not?
First of all choose ‘New’ and select one of arj, 7zip, rar or zip as the archive format. Choose ‘Add Files’ or ‘Add Folders’ from the Action menu but do not check “Password”. Add your files and then reopen the Add dialog again but now check “Password” and enter your password. From now on all the files you add to the archive will be password protected.
Why does Xarchiver show this error message when handling tar archives?
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Xarchiver is only a front end to the command line archiving utilities. Most probably you are opening an archive produced by an older version of tar than the one you are currently using, or the archive is corrupted.
Why is the option “Extract with full path” disabled when using the -e switch with tar archives?
Because GNU tar does not provide a native way to extract files outside the directories in which they are contained (as the other archivers do). When using the GUI the operation is performed by a trick that is not available when using the -e switch from the command line.
Why is the window empty when I click ‘View’?
Because the file you are trying to display is encoded with ISO-8859. I could set this encoding as a default, however this would then disable ‘special’ characters in other languages, German umlauts for example. I preferred to use the user locale even though this prevents Xarchiver from showing ISO-8859 encoded ASCII files. Detecting them would require additional code which I don't think would be appropriate for Xarchiver; it's a frontend to command line archivers, not a text editor.
How can I contact you?
You can contact me either by email, or through the project's discussion forum.

Development

The development version is available on xfce's svn server, see the download page for details. My proposed roadmap is as follows:

Version 0.5