diff --git a/src/gui/qt-daemon/application/urleventfilter.cpp b/src/gui/qt-daemon/application/urleventfilter.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d7e4e35e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/gui/qt-daemon/application/urleventfilter.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#include "urleventfilter.h"
+#include <QMessageBox>
+
+bool URLEventFilter::eventFilter(QObject *obj, QEvent *event)
+{
+      if (event->type() == QEvent::FileOpen) {
+          QFileOpenEvent *fileEvent = static_cast<QFileOpenEvent*>(event);
+          if(!fileEvent->url().isEmpty())
+          {
+            QMessageBox msg;
+            msg.setText(fileEvent->url().toString());
+            msg.exec();
+          }
+      } else {
+          // standard event processing
+          return QObject::eventFilter(obj, event);
+      }
+  };
diff --git a/src/gui/qt-daemon/application/urleventfilter.h b/src/gui/qt-daemon/application/urleventfilter.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..54341dbd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/gui/qt-daemon/application/urleventfilter.h
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#include <QObject>
+#include <QFileOpenEvent>
+#include <QDebug>
+
+class URLEventFilter : public QObject
+{
+  Q_OBJECT
+public:
+  URLEventFilter() : QObject(){};
+protected:
+  bool eventFilter(QObject *obj, QEvent *event) override;
+};
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/gui/qt-daemon/main.cpp b/src/gui/qt-daemon/main.cpp
index a37f6241..f32dde0f 100644
--- a/src/gui/qt-daemon/main.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/qt-daemon/main.cpp
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@
 //#include "qtlogger.h"
 #include "include_base_utils.h"
 #include "currency_core/currency_config.h"
-
+#ifdef Q_OS_DARWIN
+#include "application/urleventfilter.h"
+#endif
 
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
@@ -27,6 +29,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 //       _set_FMA3_enable(0);
 //#endif  // ARCH_CPU_X86_64 && _MSC_VER <= 1800
   
+  if(argc > 1)
+    std::cout << argv[1] << std::endl;
 
 #ifdef _MSC_VER 
   #ifdef _WIN64
@@ -62,6 +66,12 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 
 
   QApplication app(argc, argv);
+    
+#ifdef Q_OS_DARWIN
+  URLEventFilter url_event_filter;
+  app.installEventFilter(&url_event_filter);
+#endif
+
   MainWindow viewer;
   if (!viewer.init_backend(argc, argv))
   {