Thunar Archive Plugin

[Benedikt Meurer]

Bob Snyder wrote:
> I am trying to get Thunar and the Archive Plugin to work with Xarchiver. 
> I am running Xfce 4.2.2 on Slackware 10.2. I have Thunar 0.4.0rc1, 
> Thunar Archive Plugin 0.2.0, Xarchiver 0.4.0, all of which work fine. 
> The last three were installed from source into /usr/local
> 
> When I select "Create Archive..." or any of the other archive options in 
> the context menus, I get "No suitable archive manager found." I suspect 
> that Thunar isn't finding the .desktop and/or .tap files. When I 
> installed Xarchiver it installed them into the following paths:
> 
>    /usr/local/libexec/thunar-archive-plugin/xarchiver.tap
>    /usr/local/share/applications/xarchiver.desktop
> 
> What am I missing?

Did you run update-desktop-database /usr/local/share/applications after
installing Xarchiver?

> Thanks,
> Bob S.

Benedikt