Transmission Remote TUI (trt)

A TUI for BitTorrent client transmission

Installation

Arch Linux

• trt is available in the AUR (packaged by the developer himself)

yay -S transmission-remote-tui-git

From source

• Build dependencies: go

make && sudo make install clean

Usage

• The actual binary is called trt
• Transmission daemon must be running

transmission-daemon &

• Remote RPC URL

trt --url http://203.12.65.10:9091/transmission/rpc

• Authenticate, if required

trt --username <username> --password <password>

• Version

trt --version

• Navigation

keybinding	Action
h, j, k, l	move around
g	scroll to the top of the page
G	scroll to the bottom of the page
q	quit / go back
Q	kill the transmission daemon
l, enter	show more details about a torrent
K	move torrent up the queue
J	move torrent down the queue
U	move torrent at the top of the queue
D	move torrent at the bottom of the queue
p	pause/start torrent
r	remove torrent
R	remove torrent and delete corresponding local data
v	verify torrent
t	ask trackers for more peers
m	copy magnet link to clipboard

• Changing file's priority

keybinding	Action
i, d	increase/decrease file priority
o	change priority of focused file to 'off'
l	change priority of focused file to 'low'
n	change priority of focused file to 'normal'
h	change priority of focused file to 'high'
O	change priority of all files to 'off'
L	change priority of all files to 'low'
N	change priority of all files to 'normal'
H	change priority of all files to 'high'

Uninstall

sudo make uninstall

Further reading

• trt does not have the ability to read new torrent files/magnet links. Use transmission-remote for that.

• Adding mimeapp entry

# File: ~/.local/share/applications/torrent.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Torrent
Exec=/usr/bin/env transmission-remote -a %U

# File: ~/.config/mimeapps.list

[Default Applications]
x-scheme-handler/magnet=torrent.desktop;
application/x-bittorrent=torrent.desktop;