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How to make Chromium/Chrome open magnet links in Linux Mint

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http://www.linuxandlife.com – Many torrent sites like The Pirate Bay are now using magnet links. However, if you click on the magnet links when using Chromium or Chrome, you will have this dialog box but when nothing happens when you click on the button "Launch Application": To make Chromium/ Chrome open magnet links with Transmission in Linux Mint, just open the terminal and run the following three commands: gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet/command "transmission %s" gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/magnet/needs_terminal false -t bool gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome (Distributions)

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