TransTUI wiki

TransTUI is a terminal client (ncurses) for the Transmission BitTorrent daemon, written in C. It talks directly to transmission-daemon's JSON-RPC API - no libcurl, jansson, or other heavy dependency required.

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Contents

• Installation - dependencies, building, installing
• Configuration - config.ini, command-line flags
• Interface - tour: sidebar, list view, detail view,

  settings screen, splash screen

• Keybindings - full reference
• Daemon: setup & troubleshooting
  • no daemon found, HTTP 401 authentication, common errors
• Browser Integration - --add mode,

  .desktop file for magnet links/.torrent files

• Architecture - how the code is structured and why

Quick start

make && make install
transtui

See Installation for dependencies and Daemon: setup & troubleshooting if transtui can't connect to a daemon.