Thanks Markus!! It's xfce on Debian Jessie, so Thunar is the file manager.
However I just did the same thing on Xubuntu 14 and got no error messages... so sorry I guess this is a horrible bug report. Mark On 5/3/15, Markus Koschany <a...@gambaru.de> wrote: > On 03.05.2015 15:47, coocoo wrote: >> Package: xarchiver >> Version: 1:0.5.4-1 >> Severity: normal >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> When I download the gz file from here in IceWeasel >> >> http://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/archive/tip.tar.gz >> >> it opens into xarchiver. Then I drag/drop the contents to desktop and it >> works >> but I get a bunch of error messages. I'm on xfce desktop on debian >> jessie. >> >> Thanks for you help. > > Hello, > > could you post your error messages to this bug report please? > > I have just tried to reproduce this scenario. I use GNOME 3 and the > Nautilus file manager. tip.tar.gz opens in xarchiver and when I drag and > drop the index.html file to my home directory it works as expected. > > So the questions is: What kind of file manager do you use? Did you drag > and drop the files to your desktop or to your file manager (and there to > the desktop directory)? What kind of application controls your desktop? > As far as I know Thunar should be the default file manager for Xfce. > What happens if you drag and drop the file to another file manager such > as Nautilus or pcmanfm? > > Regards, > > Markus > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
