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Re: [LUG] Best BitTorrent client?

 

On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:34:37 +0100 (BST)
Gordon Henderson wrote:

> 
> Any suggestions? I'm currently using "bittorrent" which seems to have
> a GUI and CLI version, but when I'm fetching several torrents it
> launches several instances - which I then have to leave around,
> running for uploading/seeds - what I'd rather have is one that gets
> launched once, then any other torrents get added into it and there is
> just one GUI to manage it all...
> 
> Ta,
> 
> Gordon

I tend to use btlaunchmanycurses (which is part of the bittorrent
package on Ubuntu 10.04) inside of a screen shell so I can disconnect
from it, leaving it running and re-connect to it later.

Grant.

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