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How do you set your Default Bittorrent Application?

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OS = 12.10

Present Default Torrent Application = qBittorrent

Preferred Default Torrent Application = Vuze

My main area in of which I'm looking for advise is magnet links. Plus the program in question isn't 'installed' per say I have downloaded the tarball file for Vuze and I run the executable file from there to run it.

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answered 1 Year ago restlerfin · Accepted Answer

I had the same problem and found a solution:

In escence you have to make sure your apps's .desktop file on:

/usr/share/applications

has this line:

MimeType=application/x-bittorrent;application/x-torrent;

and then add/edit this line on /usr/share/applications/defaults.list:

x-scheme-handler/magnet={$MYAPP}.desktop;

setting the correct app name of course.

Hope this can help.