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| xfce:thunar:archive [2022/07/08 21:23] – [Supported archive managers] alexxcons | xfce:thunar:archive [2022/08/22 23:43] (current) – alexxcons |
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| The standard MIME association mechanism is used to determine the preferred archive manager for the **Create Archive...**, **Extract Here** and **Extract To...** actions. However the plugin may not always be able to detect the appropriate archive manager for a certain task. In this case, the user will need to manually select the preferred archive manager from a list of possible applications. | The standard MIME association mechanism is used to determine the preferred archive manager for the **Create Archive...**, **Extract Here** and **Extract To...** actions. However the plugin may not always be able to detect the appropriate archive manager for a certain task. In this case, the user will need to manually select the preferred archive manager from a list of possible applications. |
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| The Thunar Archive Plugin currently includes support for [[http://git.xfce.org/archive/xarchiver/|Xarchiver]], [[http://fileroller.sourceforge.net|File Roller]] and [[http://userbase.kde.org/Ark|Ark]], but support for other archive managers can easily added by installing a .tap wrapper script in addition to the .desktop file for that application (see the README file in the source tarball). | |
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| ===== Supported archive managers ===== | ===== Supported archive managers ===== |
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| thunar-archive-plugin currently supports file-roller (the GNOME archive manager), ark (the KDE archive manager), and engrampa. But support for additional archive managers can be easily added. | The Thunar Archive Plugin currently includes support for [[http://git.xfce.org/archive/xarchiver/|Xarchiver]], [[http://fileroller.sourceforge.net|File Roller]] (GNOME archive manager), [[http://userbase.kde.org/Ark|Ark]] (KDE arvhive manager) and [[https://github.com/mate-desktop/engrampa|Engrampa]] (Mate archive manager). Support for other archive managers can easily added by installing a .tap wrapper script in addition to the .desktop file for that application (see the README file in the source tarball). |
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| To add support for a new archive manager, all you need to do is to install | To add support for a new archive manager, all you need to do is to install |