(chrome) Set default handler for magnet links ?

Question

When I click on a magnet link Chrome/Chromium open Transmission ...
I'm would like to change this to use Tixati

Solution

From this question

xdg-open's config via gconf-editor didn't do anything to resolve the issue: since as of Natty the file-open functionality is handled by gvfs-open, which doesn't use gconf settings. Rather, gvfs-open looks at the ".desktop" files

So here some general instruction, they should work for every client ( just wisely change tixati with what is required by you )

1. Check the tixati.desktop file

Actually tixati.desktop looks fine so you can skip this step

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/tixati.desktop

Here we need to check that:

• Exec=tixati %U contains the %U
• MimeType contains at least these 2 entry MimeType=application/x-bittorrent;x-scheme-handler/magnet;

If not fix it and the run sudo update-desktop-database

2. set default application for Magnet

I suggest to uninstall transmission anyway this command should set tixati as default:

xdg-mime default tixati.desktop x-scheme-handler/magnet

Comments

[muru]

Just use tixati instead of deluge in instructions.

[Yannick Schneider]

yes you are right and I did, but the answer is quite long and user with few experience may need an answer for tixati

[Yannick Schneider]

also I found very confusing configure this kind of thing so having the info collected in one clean thread is valuable for me