It uses the GTK+2 or GTK3 toolkit[6] to provide the program interface; therefore, it is capable of running on any system where GTK support exists. Many other applications also use the toolkit, so support is widespread among other Linux distributions, irrespective of their specific desktop solution.
It handles encrypted *.7z, *.arj, *.lrz, *.rar and *.zip archives.
Xarchiver uses the Direct Save Protocol XDS for drag and drop file saving.[14] The program acts as a front-end for various commonly installed libraries dealing with the supported compression formats.[15][16] Xarchiver can't create archives whose archiver is not installed.[7]
Currently, the Xfce master branch of Xarchiver is being continued at GitHub.
^Frank Lichtenheld. "Xarchiver and GTK+2". Packages.ubuntu.com. Archived from the original on 6 December 2007. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
^ ab"Chapter 3. Usage". xarchiver.xfce.org. Archived from the original on 29 June 2009. [...] Xarchiver is a frontend [...] it can't create archives whose archiver is not available.
^"Software/Utilities/Compression". LiNUXLiNKS.com. Archived from the original on 11 May 2008. Retrieved 2 June 2024. Xarchiver is a gtk+2 only frontend to zip,rar,tar,bzip2 and gzip. Future releases will support 7zip and distro based packages (rpm,deb). Xarchiver allows you to create,add, extract and delete files in the above formats.
