I've got similar problem on Xubuntu 14.10 when using Chromium: click on magnet link opens Firefox window which (correctly) opens torrent client (Transmission). I found a solution:
'xdg-open' script incorrectly recognises Xfce4 desktop in 'detectDE()' function (very old code?), which makes that 'open_generic()' is used instead of 'open_xfce()'. The code below works much better: detectDE() { if [ x"$KDE_FULL_SESSION" = x"true" ]; then DE=kde; elif [ x"$GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID" != x"" ]; then DE=gnome; elif `dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.GetNameOwner string:org.gnome.SessionManager > /dev/null 2>&1` ; then DE=gnome; elif [ x"$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP" = x"XFCE" ]; then DE=xfce; elif [ x"$DESKTOP_SESSION" = x"LXDE" ]; then DE=lxde; else DE="" fi } -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/932472 Title: xdg-open does not seem to handle magnet links To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-utils/+bug/932472/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs