TRANSMISSION-GTK(1)

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💖 TRANSMISSION-GTK(1) 💖

okay bestie, this is a page from the General Commands Manual for transmission-gtk — yes, that TRANSMISSION-GTK(1) at the top, we're folding it in here so you know exactly what you're reading 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

transmission-gtk — a bittorrent client 🌸

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

transmission-gtk -?
transmission-gtk [-pqm] [torrent-file ...]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

transmission-gtk is a fast and easy BitTorrent client. no cap, that's the whole pitch 💅

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file transfer protocol which uses a metainfo file (usually with the .torrent file extension) and a central tracker to distribute file data amongst a group of peers. For more info on the BitTorrent protocol, go peek at http://www.bittorrent.org/ 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

so here's your flag menu, babes — every single one, nothing skipped 🎀

  • -?, --help — shows you the help options 💖
  • -p, --paused — starts with all torrents paused, like a little nap before the chaos 😴
  • -m, --minimized — starts minimized, vibing down in the notification area 🦋
  • -g, --config-dir directory — tells it where to look for configuration files. This one is iconic for swapping between the cli, daemon, gtk, and qt clients 🎀. More info lives at https://github.com/transmission/transmission/blob/main/docs/Configuration-Files.md

Multiple .torrent files may be added at startup by appending them on the command line. And hey — if transmission-gtk is already running, the torrents will be added to the running instance instead. no duplicate chaos here 💅

A client already running on the same config dir takes over the launch. It receives any torrents you named, or comes to the front when you named none. Either way, no second client starts ⭐. And that client doesn't have to be transmission-gtk — any client sharing the config dir will do, periodt.

🌸 ENVIRONMENT 🌸

  • TRANSMISSION_HOME — sets the default config-dir 🏠
  • http_proxy — libcurl uses this environment variable when performing tracker announces. If set, it overrides the GNOME proxy preferences 👀

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • ~/.config/transmission — the config-dir used when neither [TRANSMISSION_HOME] nor [-g] is specified 💜

💅 AUTHORS 💅

transmission-gtk was written by Charles Kerr, Josh Elsasser, Eric Petit, Mitchell Livingston, and Mike Gelfand. absolute legends, we stan 🌈

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

https://transmissionbt.com/ 🔥

aaand that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this lil' drop came from the Debian crew, dated May 20, 2008 — vintage but still eating, fr fr 💖✨

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