Comment 7 for bug 1001902

Hello,

I ran across this problem too when I tried to open a bittorrent magnet link from google chrome. I expected the magnet link to open in transmission-gtk, which did not happen.

I read the a nice description of the problem here http://askubuntu.com/questions/108925/how-to-tell-chrome-what-to-do-with-a-magnet-link.

And then added this little bit of code to /usr/bin/xdg-open. Basically I added a entry for mate in the finally case statement in xdg-open and then copied the gnome open_gnome to open_mate and changed the line open_gnome to open_mate. Patch made with diff -u attached.

case "$DE" in
    mate)
    open_mate "$url"
    ;;

    kde)
    open_kde "$url"
    ;;

    gnome)
    open_gnome "$url"
    ;;

    xfce)
    open_xfce "$url"
    ;;

    lxde)
    open_lxde "$url"
    ;;

    generic)
    open_generic "$url"
    ;;

    *)
    exit_failure_operation_impossible "no method available for opening '$url'"
    ;;
esac

open_mate()
{
    if gvfs-open --help 2>/dev/null 1>&2; then
        gvfs-open "$1"
    else
        mate-open "$1"
    fi

    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
        exit_success
    else
        exit_failure_operation_failed
    fi
}

BR.