What is this?

This is small script for integrating qBittorrent with Unity Launcher.

Instructions

1. Download qbittorrent-unity-launcher.py and module qbittorrentrpc anywhere, leave both in the same directory.

2. Make qbittorrent-unity-launcher.py executable.

   chmod +x /path/to/qbittorrent-unity-launcher.py

3. Copy /usr/share/applications/qBittorrent.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications

   cp /usr/share/applications/qBittorrent.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/qBittorrent.desktop

4. Edit newly copied file

   gedit ~/.local/share/applications/qBittorrent.desktop

5. Find Exec option and prepend /path/to/qbittorrent-unity-launcher.py to command

   Exec=/path/to/qbittorrent-unity-launcher/qbittorrent-unity-launcher.py qbittorrent %U

6. Make copied .desktop file executable.

   chmod +x ~/.local/share/applications/qBittorrent.desktop

7. You are done! Now you can use the new .desktop file to open qBittorent or drag to the the Unity Dash.

Based in the code of Kriomant https://github.com/kriomant/transmission-unity-launcher