Chapter 1.  Introduction

Table of Contents

About Xarchiver
Where to get it
License

About Xarchiver

Xarchiver is a small and lightweight archive manager. I developed it to manage archives without depending from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME, so Xarchiver requires only the GTK+2 toolkit to work.

Xarchiver has these features:

  • The most used archiver cmd-line options are supported in the Add and Extract dialog

  • Archives are detected by their magic header and not by the extension except for .tar.bz2 and .tar.gz

  • Drag and drop from and to Xarchiver window is supported with XDS protocol

  • All archive relevant content and ISO info are displayed

  • Smart detection of arj, zip and rar password encrypted archives

  • All the the output of the archiver is displayed in the Xarchiver window

  • All common formats are supported: arj, bzip2, gzip, 7z, rar, tar, tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip and RPM (only open,view and extract)

  • ISO images are supported without isodump or isoinfo executables (only open,view and extract)

  • Support of RPM files without RPM executable. This is useful on not RPM-based distributions like Slackware and Arch Linux

  • Useful info about the ISO image are displayed

  • Zip, rar, arj and 7z password encrypted archives are fully supported.