Setting a protocol handler

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Mar 29 22:21:15 UTC 2012


On 03/29/2012 04:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 03/30/2012 03:43 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> $ xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler magnet qBittorrent.desktop
>> $ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler magnet
>> $ xdg-open magnet:foo
>>
>> all do the right thing for me.
>
> That part seems not to be in question.
>
> The question is, what happens when you click on a magnet link in the Chrome Browser
> while running under KDE?

I thought chrome used xdg-open ?

(though it may use a bundled copy of xdg-utils, which may be old and/or 
buggy).

-- rex



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