On Saturday, 17 August 2024 20:09:00 BST Dale wrote:
This is the USE settings for mine here. Looks the same except I enabled
rar which should only help the situation.
root@Gentoo-1 / # equery u app-arch/p7zip
[ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation]
[ : I - package is installed with flag ]
[ Colors : set, unset ]
* Found these USE flags for app-arch/p7zip-16.02-r8:
U I
+ + kde : Add support for software made by KDE, a free software community
+ + rar : Enable support for non-free rar decoder
+ + wxwidgets : Add support for wxWidgets/wxGTK GUI toolkit
root@Gentoo-1 / #
From some quick tests I ran I can see 7-Zip does not need USE="rar" to be able to decompress RAR archives via 7-Zip.
If you emerge unrar or rar packages, then ark is capable of opening these archives when you click on them. Otherwise you'll get this error from ark:
"No suitable plugin found. Ark does not seem to support this file type."
In the Context Menu settings, I've enabled everything that even looks
like a extraction tool. It mostly refers to 7z. If I right click on
the rar file, there is no Actions option at all.
I don't know why you're not getting an Actions submenu. I have Actions
showing up in Dolphin whenever I right-click on a file, or directory. :-/
However, I've observed the following conditional behaviour which may explain why your Extract submenu does not show up.
I use the 'Details' view mode in Dolphin, presenting files in a list with columns showing Name, Size, Modified, Permissions, etc.
When I right-click with the mouse placed carefully on an archive's name not previously selected (i.e. not highlighted) the Extract submenu shows up, just as expected.
However, when I do the same with the mouse placed on any other columns or indeed on anywhere else than the name itself of the archive file, then the Extract submenu is nowhere to be found.
I suspect with the mouse hovering over the file name, the .rar file extension is identified by Dolphin and the corresponding file type relevant Extract submenu is loaded.
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I might add tho, I also can't find those tools in the KDE app menu.
When I search for 7, no results. Same for the litter z except for Zulu encryption stuff. It's like emerge says they installed but KDE doesn't
see them, or something.
I'm not sure what you mean by "KDE app menu". Do you mean the K menu search field?
When I type "7" in the K menu search field it does no find anything to load, but if I type "7z" it lists "Run 7z". When I type "zip", it lists "Run zip", as well as files containing "zip" in the file name or their file extension.
P. S. My main monitor has been winking at me. Every once in a while it would blink off and back on again. It would show up as if the computer
had just powered up. It would show the connection and such for a few seconds. Sort of like it does if I disconnect it and reconnect it
pretty quick. I got some new cables that go from mini display port to display port. Each 10' long so I'm not pulling on them when I pull the
rig out to take off the side. A while ago, it cut off, stayed off and wouldn't come back on. It threw a wrench into my whole display setup
given it was the main monitor that went dead. While it was off anyway,
I switched the cables to the new ones. So far, it hasn't winked at me a single time. I suspect it is either the cable or the little adapter
that goes from mini display port to HDMI. I swapped the adapter once
and the problem remained. I'm thinking cable.
I avoid using intermediate adapters wherever I can. I prefer to buy cables with the same connector type as the port they are meant to fit in. Additional electrical contacts between cable and port introduce another interface with
the possibility of wear, tear, oxidisation, electrical resistance and eventually failure. So, if your hardware has a mini display port and you're buying a new cable, it makes sense to buy it with a mini display port
connector on one end of it and on the other end to come with a connector to suit the hardware port you intend to plug it into.
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