When I was using squeeze, Qbittorrent was the only bittorrent client installed (I think). Once I had downloaded a torrent file using Chromium it would download to a bar at the bottom of the window, and on clicking it would bring up Qbittorrent.
Now I am using wheezy. I have other bittorrent clients installed, including Transmission and Deluge. Now, when I click a torrent file at the bottom of the Chromium window, it brings up Transmission. How can I configure Chromium to bring up whatever bittorrent client I wish? I assume Debian has some internal preference system for which bittorrent client is chosen, but I have not found any documentation about this.
NOTE: The question Set Transmission as default program when opening magnet links is very similar.
Best Answer
Chromium uses the default application.
How to find the default application for a given mime type
Changing the default application
Those commands alter the file
$HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
and/or$HOME/.local/share/applications/defaults.list
, which means you can also do the change manually.