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almahdi

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How do Xfce GUI set a magnet torrent app as default

How do we do Xfce GUI setting, by left icon of panel bar then Default Applicatiom, a magnet torrent app., eg. transmission or FDM, free download manager, as default

never succeeded as never such finding in search filter

please help

Last edited by almahdi (2023-11-15 18:47:10)

JayGursky

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Registered: 2023-07-04

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Re: How do Xfce GUI set a magnet torrent app as default

I usually do that by right-clicking a file in Thunar (the file manager) and choosing "Set default application" (or "Open with Other Application" and checking box "Use as default for this kind of file").

Also there is a program "Default Applications" in the Whisker Menu (Settings), and it can be run from terminal as

xfce4-mime-settings

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settin … erred-apps

PS. If the program you want to use is not in the list of programs, with "Use a custom command" you can set a full path to the application binary.

Last edited by JayGursky (2023-11-16 14:12:43)

almahdi

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Re: How do Xfce GUI set a magnet torrent app as default

keyword should be:

x-bittorrent

ToZ

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Re: How do Xfce GUI set a magnet torrent app as default

Try to right-click the torrent file in thunar and selecting "Open With" > "Open with Another Application", and selecting FDM from the list of applications and enabling "use as default". If FDM isn't in that list, you can select the "Use a custom command" option:

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jcubic

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Re: How do Xfce GUI set a magnet torrent app as default

I have the same issue, I use transmission-qt for the torrent files, but when I click the magnet link it opens in Transmission.

I need to use QT version, because original transmission don't have tray icon.

Is there a way to change default app for the Magnet link?

Last edited by jcubic (2025-09-13 15:10:57)

ToZ

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Re: How do Xfce GUI set a magnet torrent app as default

Does running this command set it for you?

xdg-mime default transmission-qt.desktop x-scheme-handler/magnet

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