[Ubuntu] Change client name

[kley]

Hi,
i was wondering if it's possible to modify/hide/spoof the client name shown to the other wile torrenting.
In my case it's something like "Deluge 2.0.5-0-202112151848-ubuntu20.04.1".
Thanks

[mhertz]

Yes, easiest is ticking 'anonymous mode' under 'proxy' tab in preferences(works without proxy defined, and imho should be placed elsewhere, as was split of into seperate option in libtorrent specifically to support other use cases than just proxies), or enable same option(anonymous_mode) in ltconfig plugin. This strips user_agent completely, so empty string sent for user_agent.

Alternatively you can use ltconfig plugin to change 'user_agent' to whatever wanted, or can edit the deluge code directly instead, '.../deluge/core/core.py', line 123/115, for 2.0.5/develop.

I believe btw it's builds from PPAs that include distro/os in user_agent, so if it's only about that you want avoided, then could also change to other source for getting deluge, e.g 'sudo pip install deluge' doesn't do this.

[Cas]

Ah that is a bug with how the version was parsed for the PPA, I have fixed it and updated focal package with the rest should be updated soon

[kley]

Thanks all!