xgd-open: qBittorrent & Deluge in competition

[samiel60]

When i download a "magnet" file from Chrome (xdg-open),
sometimes it's opened by qBittorrent, other times by Deluge.
how is possible to set an unique program? From inside chrome?
I'm not able to produce a stable association, nor I find anything similar
in the mimetypes configuration files...

thanx
s

[trytip]

remove one client then open a torrent magnet in chrome. for a .torrent file you can just rightclick the .torrent/properties and open with whatever set it as default.

why are you having 2 torrent programs installed? it only cause issues like the one you have

or do what i do since firejail/chrome doesn't obey xdg-open anyway. if i download a .torrent i open qbittorrent then select the + for add torrent file. for magnet links i rightclick the magnet link/copy link location then in qbittorrent select add torrent link

[samiel60]

ok thanx.
it's a dummy question, but better deluge or qbittorent?

[gm10]

When i download a "magnet" file from Chrome (xdg-open),
sometimes it's opened by qBittorrent, other times by Deluge.
how is possible to set an unique program? From inside chrome?
I'm not able to produce a stable association, nor I find anything similar
in the mimetypes configuration files...

open ~/.config/mimeapps.list in a text editor and in the [Default Applications] section either find or add the line x-scheme-handler/magnet= followed by the name of the .desktop file for program you want to associate it with. You might also want to define the handler for application/x-bittorrent.

[samiel60]

@gm10
thanx, it works fine.
only a clarification:
what's the difference between
x-scheme-handler/magnet=x-scheme-handler/magnet=
and
application/x-bittorrent ?
thanx

[gm10]

x-scheme-handler/magnet= defines the handler for magnet: links
application/x-bittorrent= defines the handler for .torrent files.

[trytip]

no such thing as better or worse. pick one that you like stick with it and learn it's configurations and quirks if you do use firejail. i like qbittorrent because it gives me more privacy options. maybe tixati has more features, don't know i stuck with qbittorrent and don't need a new client. (although now i block upgrades and stay with qbittorrent 4.03, later versions seem to not obey speed limits , or could it be that libtorrent-rasterbar is not obeying, not sure)
if you don't know which one you like then, i guess this is your trial period.

[MrGrimm]

When i download a "magnet" file from Chrome (xdg-open),
sometimes it's opened by qBittorrent, other times by Deluge.
how is possible to set an unique program? From inside chrome?
I'm not able to produce a stable association, nor I find anything similar
in the mimetypes configuration files...

open ~/.config/mimeapps.list in a text editor and in the [Default Applications] section either find or add the line x-scheme-handler/magnet= followed by the name of the .desktop file for program you want to associate it with. You might also want to define the handler for application/x-bittorrent.

i need to fix mine and i need to know if this would be right before i actually edit any thing. thanks

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x-scheme-handler/magnet=deluge

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application/x-deluge

would simply uninstall konqueror, uninstall and reinstall deluge, but the damn thing says it will remove kde as well uninstalling konqueror.

[trytip]

just backup or compress your .config/mimeapps.list

[Default Applications]
application/x-ms-dos-executable=wine.desktop
application/x-bittorrent=deluge.desktop
x-scheme-handler/http=google-chrome.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=google-chrome.desktop
x-scheme-handler/magnet=deluge.desktop

if you don't use the .desktop extension then the /usr/bin/deluge executable will start which is not a big deal unless you use deluge with firejail. you want the protocol to be called from the .desktop entry

[MrGrimm]

no no sandbox or firefox. i'm way too careful to need a sandbox. thanks for the info, not sure what you mean by .desktop. there is a lot under the hood i still have no idea about.

[trytip]

i see everything in the mimelist ending with the .desktop extension so i assume these are the correct values pasted in the very first section [Default Applications]

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application/x-bittorrent=deluge.desktop
x-scheme-handler/magnet=deluge.desktop

[MrGrimm]

i see everything in the mimelist ending with the .desktop extension so i assume these are the correct values pasted in the very first section [Default Applications]

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application/x-bittorrent=deluge.desktop
x-scheme-handler/magnet=deluge.desktop

ah ok i got ya now. thanks for clarifying that, much appreciated.