Getting information in Transmission.

By Khomus, 8 December, 2025

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Hi all.

Any tips on getting info in Transmission? I have a table with four rows which obviously are for the four torrents I've got going. But I just get it reading image a couple of times and blank columns for the rest of the row. So I can't see what torrent I'm on, let alone what they're doing or such. This also means I can't delete them, stop them, and so on.

I did get it to show me total transfer for the current session, so I can at least see that it's downloading something and how much it's downloaded. If there's no good way to do this, does anybody have a more accessible torrent client recommendation? I don't do a ton of torrents, but I do them now and again, and it would be nice to get more information on what's going on and to know what torrent I'm picking if I want to delete one or what have you.

I don't see anything in preferences that would help, but maybe I'm missing something?

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By jim pickens on Monday, December 8, 2025 - 19:01

I’ve never used transmission before (still don’t know what it is) but I think I might have a possible solution. Try navigating to the blank columns and reading by character or word. This fixed the issue for me in a couple of plugins which had native UIs. Of course, the issue might be completely unrelated, in which case, the best thing I can do is wish you luck.

By Khomus on Monday, December 8, 2025 - 20:42

But thanks for the suggestion! It just sees the text as blank.

Transmission is a torrent client. So if you want to grab something like LibreOffice or larger things from archive.org, you can click on a torrent link and have it download from multiple places at once, assuing people are offering it. Some Linux distros are distributed that way too.

By Blind Joe on Tuesday, December 9, 2025 - 06:32

When you've interacted with the table and VO is focused on a torrent, which is read as image, simply press Command plus i and a menu will pop up with all the info you're looking for. Enjoy sailing the seven seas ye Scalliwag!😏

By Blind Joe on Tuesday, December 9, 2025 - 06:40

Actually two more…

Command plus delete to remove torrent, and VO plus M will get you to your standard menus… File, edit, etc. you can do a lot from those menus.🤠 hope that helps ya scurvy scoundrel… I'm running out of pirate references! Lol god bless!

By Khomus on Tuesday, December 9, 2025 - 21:32

Ah! I can even make that work with me hook hand matey!

You know what's funny though? It really is all archive.org stuff these days. Mind you I've sailed the high seas a time or two. But now I'm just into weird stuff like old 78s. You can just hit archive.org for that kind of thing. As an example, I stumbled across these people, regional Scandinavian dialect humor from the Midwest recorded back in I think the 40s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp1SWJLZQR0

archive.org has a whole collection of their stuff, all out of print of course, with a way cleaner copy of that song. I'll grant you, not something most people are going to care about. But it's there, and they use torrents.