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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.

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    I don't know if Transmission supports using the GTK client as a front-end for the transmission-daemon, but Deluge can do it; you can use its GTK version to connect to the daemon; its web interface has also more features than Transmission's one.
    – user256743
    Commented Sep 23, 2013 at 17:51
  • @AndréDaniel, I certainly hope this can be done with Transmission.
    – rautamiekka
    Commented Sep 23, 2013 at 19:06
  • See also the question in AskUbuntu
    – PhoneixS
    Commented Dec 9, 2013 at 11:18

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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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  • Yeah, the former is the one we use too.
    – rautamiekka
    Commented Sep 23, 2013 at 21:38
  • @Rautamiekka: ...but does it solve your problem? Now I see that I probably do not understand your question completely. Do you want to use a specific transmission GUI client or what is the goal you want to achieve? If you want to run the daemon + GUI architecture you must have the daemon running. Or do you want to use two instances of transmission on a single machine - the daemon and the transmission with integrated GUI (transmission-gtk)? If so what are the reasons?
    – pabouk - Ukraine stay strong
    Commented Sep 24, 2013 at 11:18
  • The goal is to run Transmission GUI and the daemon simultaneously, in sync, so that the daemon keeps the program running when the GUI isn't, so we can use the GUI to see what's happening without having to manually ask the daemon with commands. We do use remote GUI to boss Transmission if/when we don't use the GUI on the very computer.
    – rautamiekka
    Commented Sep 24, 2013 at 12:22
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    @Rautamiekka: If you want to connect from multiple machines (including the local one) to a single instance of a transmission client you should run it as a daemon. In such a case you can use the web interface or any suitable remote GUI client to control it (even from the local machine). The trasmission-gtk is not suited for this use (daemon and GUI architecture) and trying to synchronize multiple transmission clients with a single set of data is a useless complication.
    – pabouk - Ukraine stay strong
    Commented Sep 25, 2013 at 15:15
  • I suppose I can try that, better than nothing.
    – rautamiekka
    Commented Sep 25, 2013 at 18:36

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