Xarchiver

Xarchiver
Screenshot from Xarchiver
Basic data
developer	Giuseppe Torelli
Current  version	0.5.4.14 ( December 31, 2018 )
operating system	unixoid
programming language	C.
License	GNU GPL ≥2 ( Free Software )
xarchiver.sf.net

Xarchiver is under GNU GPL posed front-end for a variety of data compression - and packers . The user interface was implemented in GTK + ; the program itself is in C written.

At Xarchiver, the programmers attached great importance to user friendliness , speed and resource-saving implementation. These properties make the program ideal for use on less powerful computers. Xarchiver was therefore part of the Xfce project for a long time , but the Xfce dependency was abandoned with the advent of other narrow desktop environments such as LXDE . Xarchiver is often the standard archive management program in corresponding Linux distributions that are supplied with Xfce or LXDE.

On December 16, 2008, Xarchiver was awarded the Soft82 Award with 5 out of 5 points as excellent.

Functions

Xarchiver can display, manipulate, extract or create the contents of archives ; however, the corresponding backend program must be installed for this. The following archive formats are currently supported:

• * .7z (partially, password-protected 7z archives are not supported)
• * .arj
• * .bzip2
• * .deb
• * .gz
• * .jar
• * .lha & * .lzh
• * .lzma
• * .rar
• * .rpm
• *. tar
• * .zip
• * .xz

Encrypted archives are supported for the file formats * .arj, * .rar and * .zip. The XDS protocol enables operation using drag and drop .

See also

• Ark , archive management program of the K Desktop Environment (KDE)
• File Roller , archive management program for the Gnome desktop environment
• List of data compression programs

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ github.com . (accessed on September 24, 2019).
2. ↑ News. December 16, 2008, accessed March 25, 2010 . 
3. ^ Giuseppe Torelli: About Xarchiver. In: Xarchiver 0.5 Documentation. Retrieved March 25, 2010 (English).