How do I assign magnet links to use qbittorrent?
I had the same problem and managed to fix it by setting the defaults for both gvfs as well as xdg.
check defaults with:
xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/magnet
gvfs-mime --query x-scheme-handler/magnet
and set them with
xdg-mime default qbittorent.desktop x-scheme-handler/magnet
gvfs-mime --set x-scheme-handler/magnet qbittorrent.desktop
Assuming you have a qbittorrent.desktop
file at /usr/share/applications/
Probably not the best way, but I achieved this simply by uninstalling Transmission - which caused the default to switch to qBittorrent automatically.
To remove Transmission:
sudo apt purge transmission\*
If you have installed q bittorrent for the first time when you click a magnetic link it will ask you to launch an application. So you need to select q bittorrent.
on the left hand side you would see filesystem. select that. /usr/bin/ ...search for q bittorrent in that list. then click OK. The download should start automatically.