In ROX-Filer, clicking on an archive file (zip, 7z, tgz, etc) opens an app to allow the archive contents to be extracted. When working in a file manager it is useful to have options in its menu to create or extract archives. Currently these are not avialable in ROX-Filer in antiX.

The following adds two options to the ROX-Filer menu, Archive-Create and Archive-Extract (both via right-click-->Send To).


Install the Scripts

1. Download both zip files attached at the foot of this post
2. As root extract them to /usr/local/bin/
   archive-create.sh
   archive-extract.sh

Set Up the Menu Entries in ROX-Filer
Do the following as your normal user in ROX-Filer

1. Open the directory /home/USERNAME/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/SendTo/
2. Drag-n-drop /usr/local/bin/archive-create.sh to it and create a symlink
3. Right-Click on the symlink-->Rename it Archive-Create (i.e. no .sh)
4. Right-Click on the symlink-->Set icon. Select Only for the file...
5. Drag-n-drop the icon file /usr/share/icons/gTangish-2.0a1/48x48/apps/file-roller.png to the set icon box
6. Repeat steps 2 to 5 inclusive for archive-extractor.sh
   Rename=Archive-Extract
   Icon=/usr/share/icons/gTangish-2.0a1/48x48/mimetypes/zip.png

Note: Open ROX-Filer as root and repeat the steps in the above section Set Up the Menu Entries in ROX-Filer to add them to root's menu.


Screen shot of it in action

Screen shot showing a directory and file selected for archiving and displaying the menu entries.

Screen shot showing a directory and file selected for archiving and displaying the menu entries.