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Old 08-05-2022, 09:22 PM   #1
Alfred-Augustus
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Simple Ktorrent Question, running in background


Hi,

If you are waiting for seeders...

Do you have to keep Ktorrent GUI running while waiting? Can I close the GUI?

If I reboot, do I have to manually restart Ktorrent?



Thanks!

Btw, I am using FVWM2, not KDE.

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Old 08-05-2022, 11:37 PM   #2
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You can verify this for yourself, I just tested this on XFCE, opened ktorrent, closed it with the 'x' close, checked:

ps aux | grep ktorrent

and it was still running, that's what I remembered it doing. You have to actually exit using the menu item: File > Quit (ctrl + q) to actually exit the program. Verify this in FVWM2, easy test to make. Test also if seeds actually do start in this mode, but I'm pretty sure they do.

How your window manager starts sessions depends on how it starts sessions, I assume something like fvwm has a start up configuration where you tell it what you want it to autostart.

I don't remember fvwm having anything like a session manager, but maybe it does, I don't know, usually those light window managers don't do stuff like that, though maybe external modules you can install will do whatever extra functionality you want, but nothing internal to ktorrent, or any kde program as far as I know, will start it external to your desktop session manager.

Some of these questions are actually best answered by you, not someone else, since you would know if you are running any kind of session manager or if one exists for fvwm, or if you have autostart stuff running, and if any, what those are.

Sounds maybe like you are slightly mixing up the purpose of using a super light window manager compared to a more full featured desktop. In XFCE, if you enable the session manager, some kde stuff starts with its previous status on logout, some doesn't, it's a bit varied. Has improved, but that's I think xfce session manager improving, not kde, but I don't know the internals, but without a session manager, you are starting a blank slate each login as far as I know. i3 for example you can configure to always open a certain program on a specific 'desktop', including I think a specific position or part of the screen, I think you can do that with things like openbox or fvwm but I'm not sure, never tried it on those.

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