Ubuntu – Thunar-archive-plugin not working

compressionfile-rollerthunar

After I experienced serious not yet resolved performance issues with Nautilus I decided to move to XUbuntu so I installed its metapackage from Ubuntu and started using it. It turns out that the archive plugin for Thunar (provides the "Extract here" option in the contextual menu when right clicking over a compressed archive) is not working, even after I apt-get purged it and reinstalled. It simply doesn't show its options in the contextual menu. What should I do to make it work?

Best Answer

I fixed it by changing corresponding command in the gnome-file-roller.tap file. In my case this file has been placed at

/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/thunar-archive-plugin/gnome-file-roller.tap

Just edit it replacing this line:

file-roller "--extract-to=$(pwd)" --extract-here --force "$@"

with this one:

file-roller --extract-here --force "$@"