transmission (bittorrent client) Transmission is a lightweight open source BitTorrent client, providing useful functionality without feature bloat. It consists of a daemon and GTK+, Qt, and CLI clients. By default, everything but the Qt client is built. It can be enabled by exporting QT=yes in the environment. The other parts can be disabled by exporting one or more environment variables: GTK=no CLI=no DAEMON=no Hint: if you use QT=yes, you probably also want GTK=no. At least one component must be enabled (all 4 set to "no" won't work). Note: transmission-gtk *must* be run from within a D-Bus session. If you use the standard /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.* to start X, or if you log in with a graphical login manager, you're already using D-Bus. Unfortunately, if it can't connect to D-Bus, transmission-gtk will freeze (not even closing the window will work). If you dislike D-Bus and prefer to avoid it, use transmission-qt instead.