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vishal8492

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Registered: 2011-12-15

Posts: 19

Unable to open magnet links with xdg-open

I'm recently getting errors when opening magnet url with xdg-open , error is malformed url.
If I just copy/paste same url in Ktorrent everything works.

I would aprreciate any help.

Docbroke

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From: India

Registered: 2015-06-13

Posts: 1,433

Re: Unable to open magnet links with xdg-open

Check the defaults with

xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/magnet

you can edit .config/mimeapps.list if required, with entry like

x-scheme-handler/magnet=transmission.desktop

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wolvieh

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From: Austria

Registered: 2008-04-01

Posts: 44

Re: Unable to open magnet links with xdg-open

I've got an issue with magnets under LXqt as well. When I'm clicking onto one in Chromium a new Window opens instead of qt-bittorrent.
xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/magnet
says
transmission-qt.desktop

Docbroke

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Registered: 2015-06-13

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Re: Unable to open magnet links with xdg-open

What is qt-bittorrent?

try "xdg-open <magnet-link>" , if it opens fine, you need to troubleshoot chromium.

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c00ter

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From: Alaskan in Washington State

Registered: 2014-08-28

Posts: 393

Re: Unable to open magnet links with xdg-open

You might want to re-examine the application's name. AFAIK it is "qbittorrent" and no other.

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Docbroke

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Registered: 2015-06-13

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Re: Unable to open magnet links with xdg-open

@wolvieh,
If you are using qtbittorrent qbittorrent (and not transmission-qt)  as c00ter suggested, you need to make appropriate changes to .config/mimeapps.list.

EDIT: spell correction

Last edited by Docbroke (2017-03-12 08:18:58)

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c00ter

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From: Alaskan in Washington State

Registered: 2014-08-28

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Re: Unable to open magnet links with xdg-open

Plain old qbittorrent. No 't' after the 'q.' Spelling counts, or so the old lady told me in school.

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wolvieh

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From: Austria

Registered: 2008-04-01

Posts: 44

Re: Unable to open magnet links with xdg-open

Oh, it's transmisson-qt, sorry.

vishal8492

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Registered: 2011-12-15

Posts: 19

Re: Unable to open magnet links with xdg-open

This is solved , there is some issue with new kde-open5 shipped with new plasma. XDG script tries to use this and falters.

For now , I just fallback to legacy version by changing script located below :

/usr/bin/xdg-open

Change in open_kde function()