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?
> 
> 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.

Done.

> Many thanks Benedikt.
> Bob S.

Benedikt