[SOLVED] [Help] extract rar file right-click from xfce

elrodrix · 05-12-2015, 08:02 AM

How I can extract rar zip file etc by right-clicking on it in slacware 14.1 xfce? I installed rar and unrar but I have no choice right click extract. ThK.

translator1111 · 05-12-2015, 08:13 AM

Dear Elrodrix,
Try to write in the console
unrar e <name of the archive>
Faithfully,
M

maciuszek · 05-12-2015, 08:16 AM

I would suggest http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14...tem/xarchiver/

Although you can always create a customs action for to just explode the rar in the current directory. In thunar have a look under edit->configure custom actions

bobzilla · 05-12-2015, 08:38 AM

Use Thunar Archive Plugin in combination with an archive manager like File Roller or Xarchiver. It can also be made to work with Engrampa. I have it working that way on my Xfce install (with a fairly trivial patch to remove caja dependencies).

kikinovak · 05-12-2015, 12:48 PM

I'm using unrar, xarchiver and thunar-archive-plugin. Works great. Right click > Extract here.

BrZ · 05-12-2015, 08:02 PM

Also you can create a custom action with something like "for file in %f; do unrar x "$file"; done" (need unrar on your system) and add *.rar to the file pattern.