Xarchiver

Xarchiver is a lightweight desktop independent archive manager built with the GTK+2 toolkit.

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xarchiver is a lightweight desktop independent archive manager built with the gtk+2 toolkit. it was developed with a simple gui which that could be used with any desktop environment and would operate using the command line rather than api calls. xarchiver has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easytouse. its user interface is clean and intuitive, and does not include any confusing or useless options.

xarchiver supports 7zip, arj, bzip2, gzip, rar, lha, lzma, lzop, deb, rpm, tar and zip archives, archive navigation with mimetype icons, archive comment ability and archive listing as html or txt. cut/copy/paste/rename actions within files of different archives are supported too. password detection is automatic for arj, zip and rar files. password encryption is available for these file types, as well as 7zip. xarchiver can also generate selfextracting binaries from zip, 7zip and rar archives and allows solid archives creation. it supports drag and drop through the xds protocol, and firefoxlike tabs. an archive multiextract ability with a progress bar is included. last but not least a progress bar window is available when using xarchiver from the commandline or from thunar filemanager.

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