Deluge Forum

Hi, I've been running Deluge (non-daemon) for a while and it crashes/stops about once a day. A forum poster indicated I should be running the daemon version with a thin client. It would be nice if the developers simply fixed the crash/stopping problem, but that seems a faint hope.

I've tried setting this up and basically I've gotten nowhere.

Between installing NSSM, creating services, etc. I now have nothing working at all.

Is there some simple install guideline to doing this? I don't need/want them running as services, stuffing an Icon in the Start folder is fine by me.

There just seems to be so many pieces to Deluge, the regular one, the daemon one, the console, the GTK ui, the web Gui, etc. etc.

I just want something that sits happily in the taskbar, like uTorrent does, and does its job. Deluge seems to have so many pieces and take so much manual setup. Surely there's a minimum part of all this that will do what I want.

Help please!

George

Your doing this too complicated. Most of the things you are indicating are setup steps for when you want to run the client and server on separate machines and also when you want the server to auto start with the machine.

For your use just open deluge, go to the preferences and under the interface disable classic mode. It will tell you to close deluge and when you restart it you will have a server list pop up. The localhost one will be the only one on the list and you just click start daemon. Also, open more options and select auto connect to this host on startup and start localhost if needed.

After those steps it should behave as before. The one exception is when you close deluge the daemon will still be running in the background. Just be aware that a simple close won't stop it. When you click file or right click the task bar icon there is a new option for quit + shut down daemon.

The advantage now is that is the GUI window crashes it won't affect your downloads. Also, if the memory leak gets you you can close the gui manually without messing with your downloads. If you have extra computers then you can have the GUI installed on all of them to control your downloads as well. I have the daemon running on my desktop, but do most of my torrent stuff from the laptop.

Shryp: Many thanks. I had that feeling that what I was doing was just excessive and that I'd gotten off down the wrong path. I'm not really a computer noob, but those instructions that I WAS following were certainly not the easiest to follow.

Thanks again, I'm off to try it your way.

George

Sure, really the only step needed is go to the preferences and uncheck the box for classic interface. The rest just automates connections.