I was writing a "hi, I've been here but haven't posted before" when I
pulled my laptop towards me and tossed my external drive to the
floor. I'm in a less good mood now, as I don't have a backup of my
backup and i'm hoping my external is still alive.
My original question -
I've been using ktorrent on (obviously) kde on suse 10. something and
I like it cause it's simple (but gives you enough info) - but I
dislike it cause it can't be paused (also it seems to start minimized
and I can't find a setting to turn that off)
we have VOIP here, so.... whenever we want to use the phone, we have
to shut the thing off.
this would be fine if it was running on a normal monitor and
keyboard, but it's running on a machine playing back on a television
with a remote keyboard/ mouse combo.
it's like trying to use a computer with your teeth. (and you can't
see where the mouse cursor is, half the time it's over something that
reverts it to that little i-beam - try seeing *that* on your TV)
my brother installed some other bittorrent/gnutella client that's
Even Worse Than This (it saves things to a hidden directory I forget
the name of, I forget how to even run it (it runs from the web
browser and it forget its name or location), and if i were to ever
find it again I'd have to try to resize the columns usings the
aforementioned tv and remote)
the resizing columns at this resolution, with this keyboard/mouse is
sheer torture.
trying to restore a minimized ktorrent with this k/m so I can stop it
is just as hard.
doing it while someone is impatiently threatening to hang up cause
they can't hear you is so hard that I actually tried to shut down kde
(didn't succeed at that either (thought it was ctrl alt backspace)).
If the ethernet cable wasn't buried behind the machine, I swear I
would have pulled it! as it was, I think I did killall ktorrent, but
that required me getting a konsole window up. caller wasn't that
patient. (should I mention that caller was my brother and he doesn't
like to answer his phone, so if you get him, you better get to the
point before he hangs up?)
we also have frostwire, which is almost as hard to control - ktorrent
*is* the best of the 3, aside from the lack of a Stop It For a Few
Minutes key. (half the time I cant find the mouse curson on the
screen with this setup)
my Windows bittorrent client has a Pause key. (and I can get my mouse
to it, as I can find my mouse cursor on my laptop, but it's a laptop
and not good for torrenting)
Does anyone know of anything kde-ish client that's about as simple as
ktorrent but has a pause key? I could spend hours digging thru stuff
at sourceforge but I figured you all might know.
(if I could find a simple gnutella client, that would be nice too,
but one problem at a time)
I look forward to meeting with you regarding this position at your
earliest convenience.
Regards,
Pamela Ashworth
Administrative/Accounting/Technical
http://www.pamelajaye.com
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