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How can I set up Chromium to open Transmission when clicking on a magnet link such as on TPB?

Chromium says that it will use xdg-open but that generally doesn't do anything

System: Manjaro Linux 0.8.5.2 fully upated

Desktop Environment: Xfce 4.10

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Xfce hardly any settings have been changed from default – ahtmatrix May 13 '13 at 23:59
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Chromium obeys the system-wide xdg settings. To configure opening magnet links with a custom application use the following command

xdg-mime default transmission-gtk.desktop x-scheme-handler/magnet

You can also do this manually: Open the file ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list and add the following entry in the section [Default Applications]:

x-scheme-handler/magnet=transmission-gtk.desktop

You can confirm the new setting with

xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/magnet
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I did that however I still get 'Unable to to detect URI-scheme of' – ahtmatrix May 13 '13 at 11:33
    
@abacusasian What does the last command from my answer return? – Marco May 13 '13 at 17:39
    
@Marco, I tried your steps and although I get transmission-gtk.desktop as output from the xdg-mime command, nothing happens when I click on a magnet link in chrome. – slm♦ May 13 '13 at 17:58
    
@Marco 'transmission-gtk.desktop' – ahtmatrix May 14 '13 at 0:05
    
@Marco I have the same problem abacusasian has, and your solution did not work :( – randunel Jul 24 '13 at 7:36
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I had this problem with Debian Jessie, running the xfce desktop. It seems to be a bug in exo-open, which pops up a window saying "Unable to to detect URI-scheme of..." when asked to open a magnet link. Updating to the latest version of exo-utils solved the problem for me:

in debian:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install exo-utils
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