Thanks Oscar, but it's time to throw in the towel. Regardless of where the transmission statement is located in the xdg-open file, still no pleasure. Luckily, the work-around is a mere keyboard shortcut away... #!/bin/bash xdotool click 3 sleep .1 xdotool key Down Down Down Down Return xdotool exec ...

xdg-open is as follows: #!/bin/sh #this script created by Jemimah. see: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=63400&start=150 #110115 xdg-open used to be a symlink to defaulthandler. #!/bin/bash case "$1" in '') exit ;; *://*) exec rox -U "$1" ;; *@*.*) exec rox -U "mailto:${1}" ;; *) exec ...

Chromium Version 65.0.3325.181 (Official Build) Built on Ubuntu , running on (64-bit) Installed via PPM. OK, so I dragged transmission-gdk to the desktop and renamed it transmission. Is that a symlink? Clicking it opens transmission. Should that have fixed the chromium problem? It hasn't. Thanks for ...

Renaming transmission to transmission-gtk in the gtk-open file did not change anything unfortunately.
So.why does palemoon have no issues with magnets in view of the original configuration of the gtk-open file?

Ah, here's a better workaround that downloads the magnet directly from chromium: Place your mouse over the magnet symbol but do not click. Trigger your keyboard shortcut instead. xdotool click 3 sleep .1 xdotool key Down Down Down Down Return xdotool exec transmission-gtk sleep .5 xdotool key ctrl+u ...

Here is my inelegant workaround...

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 577#992577

I appreciate that there are more than one way to get results. Thanks.

The reason for this exercise was to be able to write a small script that opens chromium urls in palemoon.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 577#992577

This is a workaround to the problem of opening magnet files into Transmission from chromium. The script opens any Chromium url in Palemoon including torrent sites were the magnet can then be downloaded via Transmission. I am working on second script that bypasses Palemoon and copies the magnet url ...

Solved!!

Even simpler is the following...

Ok, the output of :
and Produces the clipboard url "my.yahoo.com" produces output "url" produces nothing[/code][/quote][/code]

Thanks, but no go. Browser opens home page now. Looks like is not grabbing clipboard content.

#!/bin/bash

url = 'xclip -o -selection clipboard'
/usr/bin/palemoon url

# clipboard content is "www.my.yahoo.com"
# result: palemoon opens url.com not yahoo

# xenialpup 7.5 64bit
# Can anyone tell this newbie where I went wrong? Thanks.

Yup, already on bash. In conjunction with xdotool and easygestures, should be able to automate Puppy to my heart's content.

Thanks for the quick responses. I am using xenialpup 7.5 64bit, Rox and JWM. Original xdg-open: #!/bin/sh #this script created by Jemimah. see: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=63400&start=150 #110115 xdg-open used to be a symlink to defaulthandler. case "$1" in '') exit ;; magnet ...

Is there an update to this issue?
I am on xianialpup 7.5 with the same issue.
Changing the xdg-open file as suggested did not resolve the problem. Thanks.

Switching to a new OS after 20+ years of Windows is a bit of a challenge. And that's what actually attracted me to the enterprise. There is a great satisfaction to solving puzzles. Having a terrific forum like this one adds to the enjoyment. In a relatively short amount of time, I have pretty well ...

Perfect!

I really want to thank you again for Lick. The Puppy community is a lot richer for it. It allows newbies like me to instantly install Puppy with one click. I initially tried the installer within Puppy and I gotta tell you, it was a nightmare for me.

The question I have is, why didn’t someone tell me earlier about Puppy?

That depends on when you need to press enter :P In general, you should be able to. Also, check if you are just running into a long timeout (it should be 5 seconds on the first screen and 5 seconds on the second screen). For the former, you can run (in Windows, in an administrator prompt like in the ...

Noryb, thank you. I am now booting Puppy first after following your instructions. Also, I took a chance and edited the lickmenu.lst eliminating the <no save> option since I also have Puppy on a usb stick should I ever need to boot it in that fashion. It worked out just fine, but I still have to ...