File-roller "Open With" GDBus error

Desktop Environments XFCE
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I think the relevant components here are all part of the default install. I’ve only been using EOS for about a week. pacman says that file-roller was “Install Reason : Explicitly installed”, but I don’t think I did that manually, so I suspect it was part of the installer? It also says file-roller is “Optional For : thunar-archive-plugin” which could be relevant since xfce is using thunar as its default file manager.

I opened a zip file with file-roller (the default association), right clicked on a file in the zip, chose Open With, and received an error dialog as follows:

Could not perform the operation
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name is not activatable
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I wasn’t able to reproduce this on arch, but I have a variety of additional gnome and gtk packages on my arch system.

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thunar can use different file compression tools.

You could try using another one (remove one install the other)

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I often switch between the gnomes File-Roller and kdes Ark. I’ve found file roller better for exploring but ark better for compression (faster and smoother)

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Yeah, I already switched to xarchiver, but I thought it was worth reporting what seems like a problem in the base/default system?

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When I was using Thunar, engrampa worked quite well for me.

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Shoutout to engrampa which is file-roller without libadwaita. :speaking_head:

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i do use engrampa here too on my i3 setup, but i see:

I will check if we need to change this.

  • Cinnamon has it as a dependency for nemo-fileroller
  • Gnome its the adwaita (only-one)
  • Budgie uses nemo so same
  • lxqt uses its own tool based on engrempa (mate)
  • lxde has file-roller not ideal as it is fully gtk2 still
  • i3 has xarchiver what is not the best but works…
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yes… makes it bad for lxde and everywere libadwaita is not default…

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general it is still working fine to use file-roller on xfce4 only it uses default adwaita light theme…
The trick currently is to add gtk theme in env:

/etc/environment systemwide or ~/.config/environment.d/userenv.conf per user

export GTK_THEME=Arc-Dark
export GTK_ICON_THEME=Qogir-dark

With this libadwaita apps will use the set theme… issue is that we can not set this by default as it will not change when user is changing theme…

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Although a downside the upside is it adds a little bit of learning to things in an easy way.

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ha ha yea as always… but gtk is messed up at the moment… could be next update and it will not work anymore with the env “hack”

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Just a bit more learning along the way