7:49 PM
Transmission Remote GTK is a cross-platform tool for controlling Transmission Bittorrent Client remotely, through its RPC interface. The application is very similar to
Transmission Remote GUI in terms of Bittorrent functionality, however, Transmission Remote GTK integrates better with the GNOME desktop (since it's a GTK app; sadly it's GTK2 only), comes with torrent added/downloaded notifications as well as tray / Ubuntu AppIndicator support.
What is this tool for? Well, if you've set up Transmission Daemon on a server (it doesn't really has to be a server but anyway), you can use Transmission Remote GTK to control it remotely. For how to set up Transmission Daemon on Ubuntu / Debian, see our old (should still work) post:
Setting Up Transmission-Daemon in Ubuntu / Debian.
Transmission Remote GTK features:
- Cross-platform
- Remotely add (file/url), start, stop, remove, remove & delete, verify, reannounce torrents.
- Works as a .torrent handler (eg. from a web browser).
- Set torrent properties such as speed, seed, peer limits, file priorities, add/edit/remove trackers.
- Change remote settings like global limits, download directory, and connectivity preferences.
- Run commands when download finishes
- Directory labels
Transmission Remote GTK comes with a PPA for Ubuntu Precise, Oneiric and Natty users. Add the PPA and install it using the commands below:sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ajf/trg
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install transmission-remote-gtk
For Fedora, Windows and source files, see the Transmission Remote GTK
downloads page.
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1:55 AM
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Transmission-Unity-Launcher" is a python script that provides Unity launcher integration for Transmission BitTorrent client. For now, the script displays the number of downloads and total download progress but in the future it might get more features, like menu items to control the speed, start or stop torrents.
Installation
For now, the script only works with Ubuntu 11.04.
The script page provides installation instructions, but to make it easier, I've added exact command line instructions below and all you have to do is copy/paste the commands below in a terminal to get it working (before proceeding, make sure Transmission is installed):
sudo apt-get install python-gobject python-transmissionrpc git-core
cd
git clone https://github.com/kriomant/transmission-unity-launcher.git
sudo cp transmission-unity-launcher/transmission-unity-launcher.py /usr/local/bin/
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/transmission-unity-launcher.py
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications
cp /usr/share/applications/transmission-gtk.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
sed -i 's/^Exec=transmission-gtk/Exec=\/usr\/local\/bin\/transmission-unity-launcher.py transmission-gtk/' ~/.local/share/applications/transmission-gtk.desktop
chmod +x ~/.local/share/applications/transmission-gtk.desktop
Then, in Transmission select Edit > Preferences and on the "Web" tab, check the "Enable web client" box and close Transmission. And finally, open Nautilus, navigate to ~/.local/share/applications (~/.local is a hidden folder in your home directory so press CTRL + H to see it) and drag the Transmission icon onto the Unity launcher. Now start Transmission using the new icon from the Unity launcher.
If you don't want to use my installation instructions above, you can manually download the script via
GitHub.
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