hello everyone,
i just installed rTorrent. seems to run great. but i need more
the reason i installed it in the first place was because i can't have KTorrent running in some X session and be able to retrieve it by opening another session (since i'd only get a new login window - and not the option to log on to the KDE session that is running KTorrent). I tried installing tightVNC to be able to retrieve the exact same KDE session, but tightVNc runs a new X server altogether with a primitive window system, from which however KTorrent can not be run)..

so i ended up in a console solution.
is it possible to run rtorrent, start some downloads i want, and then send it to background ? maybe even log off that session and then later if i log on i can get the same rtorrent window back in the foreground and see the status of the downloads??

thank you i advance for your help
nass

You can use screen to start the program, so when you logout it will not stop.
Then pressing Ctrl-A+D will detach the screen and you can logout. Running will show you the detached screen sessions and you can resume the one you want running:

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this is beautiful
thank you very much!

hi,

i have same issue but it type it it doesnot do anything. Displays an error there are two suitable screens running on the server name::

type screen [-d] -r [pid]tty.host

nothing happens when i try it..

I just wanted to confirm that even 4 years later, this post is 100% relevant, and working in Ubuntu 11.04.

Jay

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This save my day
Finally solution for my Ubuntu Server(20.04.1).
Still works in 2022

15 years later, rtorrent is perfectly capable to run as a daemon.