the gui is crap. if you don't want to use a command once in a while, then what the hell are you doing with linux. if you want compression, simply pipe the output to bzip2 or gzip and have then read from standard input. Derek Broughton <news@pointerstop.ca> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Christopher Lemire wrote: > Try the command line to instead of the gui instead. > > tar -cvf filename.tar /path/to/your/home > In the first place, he wants compression so he'd use the _compression_ options. In the second, you're not remotely responding to the question - which is that he _used_ to have context menus that let him tar (and compress) files in the file manager (not clear whether that's nautilus or konqueror but probably konqueror) and now they don't seem to work. Richard: I'm sorry I can't help, but I _can_ say that on my (gutsy) kde desktop, I can still right click on a folder and get a "Compress" context menu. That menu contains "Compress as FILENAME.tar.gz"; "Compress as " (with a submenu for all the compression types supported by Ark); "Add to" (presumably a most-recently-used list of archives created by this tool); and "Add to archive...". As far as I can see, these work. -- derek -- ubuntu-users mailing list ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users </blockquote> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com