Chapter 1. Introduction
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## Chapter 1. Introduction

## 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

- ZIP and ARJ archive comment are supported. RAR comment is not yet supported because it's compressed inside the archive itself

- Tabs Firefox style support

- Ability to convert the archive to self-extracting for those archive types which support it

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

- All the the output of the cmd-line archiver is displayed in the Xarchiver window

- All common formats are supported: arj, bzip2, lha, gzip, 7z, rar, tar, tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip, DEB 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 (7z automatic password detection is not supported)

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