Thunar Archive Plugin

[Bob Snyder]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 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?

Ah, that was it. Works great now. I was unaware of the fact that changes 
to the desktop database needed to be updated. I guess this happens 
automatically at startup, but didn't think to try restarting. A note to 
this effect in the plugin README might be helpful for folks like me.

Many thanks Benedikt.

Bob S.