Archive directories can be browsed just like a file manager

Mime icon for each of the archive entries

The most used archiver cmd-line options are supported in the Add and Extract dialogs

Tabs Firefox style support

Multi-extract facility

Context menu on each of the archive entries with cut/copy/paste/rename abilities

Archives are detected by their magic header and not by the extension except for .tar.bz2 and .tar.gz

Drag and drop from and to Xarchiver window is supported with XDS protocol

ZIP and ARJ archive comment are supported. RAR comment is not supported because it's compressed inside the archive itself

Ability to convert the archive to self-extracting for those archive types which support it

Smart detection of arj, zip and rar password encrypted archives

All the the output of the cmd-line archiver is displayed in the Xarchiver window

All common formats are supported: arj, bzip2, gzip, lha, lzma, 7z, rar, tar, tar.bz2, tar.gz, tar.lzma, zip, deb and rpm packages (open and extract only)

DEB and RPM packages don't require their package managers. This is useful on not RPM-based distributions like Slackware and Arch Linux

Zip, rar, arj and 7z password encrypted archives are fully supported (7z automatic password detection is not supported)