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

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

All archive relevant content and ISO info are displayed

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

Tabs Firefox style support

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, lha, gzip, 7z, rar, tar, tar.bz2, tar.gz, zip, DEB and RPM (only open,view and extract)

ISO images are supported without isodump or isoinfo executables (only open,view and extract)

Support of RPM files without RPM executable. This is useful on not RPM-based distributions like Slackware and Arch Linux

Useful info about the ISO image are displayed

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