GUI bittorrent client for Xfce as alternative to Deluge?

chris_debian · 2009-03-13 09:00:51

Hi,

Can anyone recommend a fairly light bittorrent client for use with Xfce. I currently have Deluge installed, but want to try something different.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Chris.

(Just found this http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Common_Apps)

droog · 2009-03-13 11:05:33

transmission is a good one, i use it alot with no problems.

chris_debian · 2009-03-13 13:46:23

droog wrote:

transmission is a good one, i use it alot with no problems.

Does it pull in many dependencies?

I keep reading about rtorrent, it's not GUI, but I'm wondering whether I actually need a GUI.

Cheers,

Chris.

celettu · 2009-03-13 13:48:40

Transmission-gtk, definitely. Lightweight, does everything you want it to and nothing else.

tjwoosta · 2009-03-13 14:24:15

rtorrent is great

gui's are vastly overrated

Army · 2009-03-13 14:50:27

Without GUI => rtorrent
With GUI => transmission

chris_debian · 2009-03-13 15:43:18

celettu wrote:

Transmission-gtk, definitely. Lightweight, does everything you want it to and nothing else.

Perfect.

MarCustomized · 2009-03-13 17:05:21

Transmission lags my desktop badly when it's verifying multiple large torrent files [5+ GBs]. Besides that, I'd say it's pretty good.

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Inxsible · 2009-03-13 17:45:49

Transmission also has a cli version. Although I would recommend rTorrent. I love it. It stays out of your way. I mean what good does it do you, staring at fancy graphics while a torrent is downloading?

I would never use anything but rTorrent.

Army · 2009-03-13 17:56:41

MarCustomized wrote:

Transmission lags my desktop badly when it's verifying multiple large torrent files [5+ GBs]. Besides that, I'd say it's pretty good.

Isn't that more a problem of your filesystem or config settings (e.g. /etc/sysctl.conf)? Did you compare that with other torrent applications?

Bebo · 2009-03-13 19:42:39

If you're considering testing a cli client, have a look at btg also. It's my choice over rtorrent, since it also supports blocklist and runs as a pure daemon (rtorrent needs to be run in a screen, I think).

shaded · 2009-03-13 22:01:14

Transmission lags my desktop badly when it's verifying multiple large torrent files [5+ GBs]. Besides that, I'd say it's pretty good.

I save torrents to a TrueCrypt-encrypted NTFS partition and it was real bad until I upgraded from Transmission 1.42 to 1.50. Its GUI is still pretty slow when it's hashing but it doesn't kill the performance of everything else.

Unfortunately the package in the official repo hasn't been updated. Grabbing the PKGBUILD and updating it is easy enough though.

Last edited by shaded (2009-03-13 22:02:19)

jumzi · 2009-03-14 01:32:43

rtorrent + screen = love

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GUI bittorrent client for Xfce as alternative to Deluge?

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