Transmission Remote GUI

Transmission Remote GUI is an open source, completely free and multiplatform graphical application that has been developed to provide a remote GUI (Graphical User Interface) front-end for the remote control daemon of the well known Transmission BitTorrent client.

Allows users to remotely control Transmission

As you’ve might already guessed, this piece of software allows you to easily and remotely control the Transmission daemon, which must run in the background, as a daemon, on your GNU/Linux operating system, via its RPC (Remote Procedure Call) protocol.

Offers a uTorrent-like interface

Another interesting feature of the Transmission Remote GUI application is that it offers a uTorrent-like interface, which provides even more functionality than the official web interface of the Transmission project. The user interface supports multiple languages.

Features at a glance

Key features include support for filtering torrents by tracker, status or folder, support for viewing detailed information about the tracker, system tray support, peer country and hostname resolver, per torrent options, built-in notification balloon that informs you when a torrent is complete.

Additionally, the program features support for both magnet and torrent files, supports detailed peer information, supports peer country flag, support for selecting files to download, support for setting the torrent and file priority, support for selecting the target download folder, as well as complete torrent information.

Runs on GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X

Transmission Remote GUI is a cross-platform software that has been successfully tested with many GNU/Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Arch Linux, openSUSE, Fedora, and Linux Mint, as well as with Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It is currently supported on 32 and 64-bit computer platforms.

Under the hood

While taking a quick look under the hood of the Transmission Remote GUI project, we have noticed the it was written in the Free Pascal programming language, using the Lazarus RAD IDE (Integrated Development Environment).

What is new in this release:

• An option to change a torrent's file/folder name during addition (Transmission 2.80+ only). Issue #498 .
• Renaming of existing torrents, files and folders (Transmission 2.80+ only). Issue #498 .
• Display files list as a tree in the Files tab. Issue #572 .
• Show check boxes in the Files tree to allow more user friendly selection of files to be downloaded.
• Import trackers from a duplicate torrent. Issue #522 .
• Option "Average out transfer speeds to eliminate fluctuations". ETA is much more reliable now. Issue #193 .
• When a completed torrent is double clicked, its file/folder is opened if possible. Issue #675 .
• Free disk space is updated when changing a destination folder in the Add torrent window (Transmission 2.80+ only). Issue #665 .
• Options to control handling of .torrent files and magnet links on Windows. Issue #645 .
• Added column "Seeding time". Also display seeding time in the "Share ratio" field in the torrent info pane. Issue #591 .
• Option "Show notifications in tray icon". Issue #590 .
• Display the number of files in the title of the Files tab.
• Option "Ask for password". Issue #152 .
• Removed flickering of torrent details while changing current torrent.
• Speed up rendering of torrent and file lists.
• Use system default date/time format on Linux and OS X. Issue #624 .
• Many bug fixes.