Running KDE 4.2.3 under Slackware 12.2 (Upgraded to -current), and ktorrent 3.2.0.

I have my box set to start under init 4. I'd like to make it so that ktorrent starts in the background before the login prompt so I can use the ktorrent web interface remotely without having a user logged into KDE, and ideally would like it to run uninterrupted as users log on and off locally.

Have you ever tried rtorrent? It's an optimized C++ ncurses CLI program. Load it in a screen session, and you can access it anywhere by detaching and reattaching. It takes a fraction of the resources of ktorrent, and you can easily set bandwidth limits. Copy your torrent link, backspace in rtorrent, paste your link, and you're running. And because it's running in screen, you can log out of the machine and it stays running in the background and you can reattach remotely, or when you login later.

You'll find rtorrent on slackbuilds.org.

Bugz

Got it working beautifully, thanks for the recommendation.

Any recommendation on a WebUI?

That I don't know. For me, rtorrent combined with screen and ssh does it all for me. I run it on my main workstation/server, and I can add torrents to it from work or my laptop through ssh. And keeping everything tidy in ssh is a plus. Plus, I keep a few programs running in screen that I access from other locations, rtorrent, irssi, minicom for packet radio.....

Looks like some people are working on interfaces.

rTWi (links to more at bottom):
http://projects.cyla.homeip.net/rtwi/

This one looks promising, n2hell:
http://code.google.com/p/n2hell/

I know this is a little late but I came accross this thread and tried a few things out... If you were looking for a web interface Torrent Flux is rather nice... Just playing with it now my self. Dunno about slackware, but under Ubuntu I just installed it via apt-get and it seems okay so far.

http://www.torrentflux.com/index.php

Just needs to set up apache and everything as well though. But that's my two cents