The one caveat to this is that if you’re opening text files, it will open in the default Gedit — or GNOME Text, depending on which version of GNOME you’re using — GUI application.

Once you’ve done that, click to open the archive and you should see the mytext.txt file is there. SEE: Linux turns 30: Celebrating the open source operating system (free PDF) (TechRepublic) ...

Right-click on the FAR file to show the File context menu. Click the "Open With" option. A list of installed programs displays. Click the "File and Archive Manager" link to open the FAR file in ...