Setting a protocol handler

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 07:58 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> On 03/29/2012 07:48 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > In fact I suspect that Chrome just uses xdg-open. I think the solution
> > to all this may be centered on xdg-settings, the manual for which gives
> > this example:
> >
> > xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler mailto evolution.desktop
> >
> > However I still haven't figured out the proper incantation for magnet (I
> > may have to set up a qbittorrent.desktop file, which currently doesn't
> > exist).
> 
> tried
> xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler magnet qBittorrent.desktop
> yet?

Yes, doesn't work. See recent message.

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