Trinity and torrent magnet link is not working

bugmenot · 2025-08-23 10:12

i found that my q4os aquarious Trinity DE is not catching magnet links from google-chrome
I tried to add from TDE control center > TDE components > file associations > uri > add > magnet: URIs and then add transmission-gtk %u
i also tried qbittorrent appimage
but with no luck

i also played with
~$ xdg-open

and the query
~$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/magnet
qbittorrent-appimage.desktop

i will be glad if any one helped me in this, btw Firefox is working with transmission-gtk, qbittorrent , and xdg-open

hchiper · 2025-08-23 12:14

bugmenot wrote:

transmission-gtk %u

Did you try with an uppercase U: `transmission-gtk %U`

bugmenot · 2025-08-23 16:54

hchiper wrote:

bugmenot wrote:
transmission-gtk %u
Did you try with an uppercase U: `transmission-gtk %U`

it is already with the uppercase transmission-gtk %U

i did also a try with qbittorrent to regsiter it with magnet link and not to use tde componet file associations method, i tried this

~$ nano ~/.local/share/applications/qbittorrent-appimage.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Exec=~/Downloads/qbittorrent-5.1.2_x86_64.AppImage %U
Icon=qbittorrent
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/magnet;application/x-bittorrent;
Name=qBittorrent (Appimage)
Terminal=false
Type=Application

~$ xdg-mime default qbittorrent-appimage.desktop x-scheme-handler/magnet
~$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/magnet

this returns

qbittorrent-appimage.desktop

also

~$ xdg-open "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:D0592CFA1F3AEB8318CEA........."

starts qbitorrent from terminal , but google-chrome still does not affected at all

hchiper · 2025-08-24 09:22

bugmenot wrote:

it is already with the uppercase transmission-gtk %U
i did also a try with qbittorrent to regsiter it with magnet link and not to use tde componet file associations method, i tried this (...)

I didn't know you already used an uppercase %U (in your original post you typed a lowercase %u).

Now, I think what you're missing is configuring Google Chrome to handle magnet links. There are a lot of tutorials on this, for example this one. Hope it helps.

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#1 2025-08-23 10:12

Trinity and torrent magnet link is not working

#2 2025-08-23 12:14

Re: Trinity and torrent magnet link is not working

#3 2025-08-23 16:54

Re: Trinity and torrent magnet link is not working

#4 2025-08-24 09:22

Re: Trinity and torrent magnet link is not working

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