Linux – Is it possible run Transmission daemon and Qt/GTK GUI at once in sync

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The title is the question.

Originally this Ubuntu machine was meant to be headless, but I installed LXDE. Usually Transmission is run by the default GTK+ GUI. Instead of making sure the daemon runs instead of the GUI I'd prefer to have the GUI and the daemon, but I don't know how, if even possible, to run both at once and they being in sync, of course.

We login as jaervinen when we use the computer, 1 login at a time, but I know that Transmission daemon has its own user, debian-transmission.

Best Answer

I am happily using Transmission Remote GUI for few years already. It is not exactly the Qt or GTK GUI but it works on multiple platforms very well. The package is contained in Ubuntu. Just install the transgui package. On the project site there are also current binary packages which run on Ubuntu.

Another option is to use transmission-remote-gtk which has a PPA. Unfortunately I have no experience with this one.

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