Posted on September 23, 2012
How to make Chrome use Deluge for magnet links in Fedora
Sep 2014 update: This was written for Fedora 17. Apparently the desktop file has been renamed to deluge.desktop (the sane choice).
The three things you need to know:
1) Unlike Firefox, Chrome uses xdg-open to choose the default program to open a file.
2) You can set the default application for each type by using xdg-mime.
3) The Fedora desktop file for Deluge is fedora-deluge.desktop and not deluge.desktop.
xdg-mime default fedora-deluge.desktop x-scheme-handler/magnet
Hi, just wanted to say, I liked this article.
It was inspiring. Keep on posting!
didn’t work, it opens ktorrent instead.
only works when I change fedora-deluge.desktop to deluge.desktop… I’m using Fedora 20 Cinnamon with Chrome Version 36.0.1985.143
The last few times I’ve tried various fixes for this issue I’ve never had any luck, this is the first time I’ve found a solution that actually works :) thanks!