Is there a decent dc++ client yet?

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Deranger · Post by **Deranger** » Sat May 28, 2005 11:18 pm

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Yu0 4r3 ly1ng!1

There's nothing that can beat DC++ or it's port.

ctachta · Post by **ctachta** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:37 am

linuxdcpp is the BEST dc++ client I have used so far

I was also wondering, if there is a way to dock Wulfor at the taskbar (Gnome):?:

I am very happy so far with this client and even if I do not find how to dock it I will still use it!

sliwowitz · Post by **sliwowitz** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:13 pm

One annoyance in linuxdc++: Everytime I start it, it slows down everythig for a consedirebla amount of time (like 10 to 20 minutes). I thing it's because it's rehashing the filelist at startup (but it's just a guess). Does any of you encountered this? Is there any option for that, or just any way to make it not do that?? (I've tried to turn of automatic refresh list every hour, but that didn't help)

sliwowitz · Post by **sliwowitz** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:14 pm

I was also wondering, if there is a way to dock Wulfor at the taskbar (Gnome)

Try the alltray utility, it's in portage.

radfoj · Post by **radfoj** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:25 pm

Slivovice, when I startlinuxdc++ and there were some changes in directory which is shared since last hash, its hashing for some time in my case too. You can see it, if you click on "Hash" button. Than I can start it again and again without any rehashing, till some changes in shared dicectory occures.

yaneurabeya · Post by **yaneurabeya** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 8:28 pm

slivovice wrote:One annoyance in linuxdc++: Everytime I start it, it slows down everythig for a consedirebla amount of time (like 10 to 20 minutes). I thing it's because it's rehashing the filelist at startup (but it's just a guess). Does any of you encountered this? Is there any option for that, or just any way to make it not do that?? (I've tried to turn of automatic refresh list every hour, but that didn't help)

Check the perms on the .dc++ dir to see if you own the dir. If you don't have write access, it'll just try hashing everything every time you start linuxdc++ up.

cabe · Post by **cabe** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 3:12 am

so without reading all 17 pages.. what's the consensus so far? does it seem that linux dc++ is the program to use, or would dc++ under wine still be better? i'm currently staggering along with valknut but i swear something is not working correctly as nearly everyone i search has no free slots. i download the same (type) files in linux as i did windows and in dc++ i never had the problem of going through over 20 hubs with not a single user having a free slot for the (imo common) file i want.. oh there are plenty of people who have the file, just noone has any free slots.. i do have active mode configured properly.

sorry, i'm just a bit frustrated.. (wait, that would be an understatement..)

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155 sources and only *two* users have open slots.. each which transfers at < 10k/sec..

i feel like it's in passive mode but i DO have it set to active..

Vitaliy · Post by **Vitaliy** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:39 am

LDCPP works GREAT for me! Just like Windows version.

sliwowitz · Post by **sliwowitz** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 1:13 pm

Slivovice, when I startlinuxdc++ and there were some changes in directory which is shared since last hash, its hashing for some time in my case too. You can see it, if you click on "Hash" button. Than I can start it again and again without any rehashing, till some changes in shared dicectory occures.

I see, now it seems almost ok. It looks like it starts rehashing even if no changes were made, but a minute after the users list is populated it finishes saying processing is done and statistics shows just -.-- B/s.

Now, when there are three users downloadnig files from me (totally max. 15kB/s) the CPU usage jumps between 30-90% (nice time according to gkrellm) in some two seconds intervals and it seems never drop to zero, which is IMO quite a lot. The system is least usable, but the slowdown is still noticeable.

Deranger · Post by **Deranger** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 2:37 pm

Since there are lots of people whining about the transfer list context menu:
transfer_list_context_menu.diff

Written by Phase but it's not in CVS yet.

G2k · Post by **G2k** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 10:16 am

why hasn't ldcpp gone into portage as stable yet? I haven't used it but I heard that it's quite reliable. Is it because it uses gcc 3.4?

Deranger · Post by **Deranger** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:52 pm

G2k wrote:why hasn't ldcpp gone into portage as stable yet? I haven't used it but I heard that it's quite reliable. Is it because it uses gcc 3.4?

Why do they would put Windows programs to Portage?

There's not a single official tarball released and CVS is the only way to get it. For some people, including me, it works fine but there are lots of users with problems.

And no, I am not trying to sound bitchy, that's just how it is.

Slavo · Post by **Slavo** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 8:54 am

hello,
can anybody explain me how to install this super linuxdc++ client ?
i just migrated to gcc 3.4.3 to be able to install it

-hehe i just did it , it was simple:

...migrated to gcc 3.4.3
...emerge cvs
...emerge scons

i went to http://linuxdcpp.berlios.de/document.php?id=1

downloaded the sources as written on webpage,
then: cd linuxdcpp

#scons

...and.....DONE!!!!!

- client is hashing now.... my first opinion - looks BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!

maybe it can support Auto get IP , but im sure it will be implemented in future

hashing now

Slavo · Post by **Slavo** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:34 am

first problems:

Favourite hubs doesnt work for me; Im running linuxdcpp as normal user
also hashing - looks like it hashes, but then it shows 0 B

anz ideas?

RaZoR1394 · Post by **RaZoR1394** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 1:56 pm

Slavo wrote:first problems:

Favourite hubs doesnt work for me; Im running linuxdcpp as normal user
also hashing - looks like it hashes, but then it shows 0 B

anz ideas?

What do you mean with It looks like It's hashing? The hashing is usually finnished when it reaches 0bytes, at least for me. Is there any heavy hd activity going?

Anyway... I upgraded the app some days ago and I must say that It's definitely more stable. Still the GUI locks up, but less then before. To recover the GUI I have to press somewhere in for ex. the transferbar which reignites the GUI to It's full state. But sometimes when you press for ex search, the search window gets totally unaligned/corrupted.

Slavo · Post by **Slavo** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 3:54 pm

so what it does:

1.once i have some files in my share, it takes ages to start a client
2. it takes ages to load userlist too, but the downloading from users runs fast

also i chose the following ports for TCP and UDP : 9176 (since theyre opened in my firewall for valknut) - is that ok?

heeeeeeeelp, i really like how the client looks

))

yaneurabeya · Post by **yaneurabeya** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 7:50 am

For hash errors, like I said before, change the perms of the .dc++ directory from root:wheel (someone needs to find out why that error is occurring) to your uid:guid, using

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chmod -Rf uid:guid .dc++

Slavo · Post by **Slavo** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:10 am

hmmmm doesnt work

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 # chmod -Rf uid:guid .dc++
chmod: invalid mode string: `uid:guid'

Adrien · Post by **Adrien** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:11 am

Slavo wrote:hmmmm doesnt work
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 # chmod -Rf uid:guid .dc++
chmod: invalid mode string: `uid:guid'

No! You actuallyhave to replace the uid/gid strings by your user's uid/gid.
Try this:

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# id <your_username>

It will give you your user's uid and gid and then use these with the command yaneurabeya gave you.

Slavo · Post by **Slavo** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:23 am

# id user
uid=1000(favo) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),10(wheel),11(floppy),18(audio),19(cdrom),27(video),35(games),85(usb),409(scanner)

so how should it be now?

Adrien · Post by **Adrien** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:28 am

Slavo wrote:uid=1000(favo) gid=100(users)

Should be this way:

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# chmod -Rf 1000:100 .dc++

Slavo · Post by **Slavo** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 4:18 pm

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# chmod -Rf 1000:100 .dc++
chmod: invalid mode string: `1000:100'

zeb · Post by **zeb** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:00 pm

Slavo wrote:

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# chmod -Rf 1000:100 .dc++
chmod: invalid mode string: `1000:100'

The command is chown, not chmod. Like this:

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chown -R 1000:100 .dc++

Also, if the files are currently owned by root you need to run this command as root for it to work.

yaneurabeya · Post by **yaneurabeya** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:52 pm

uh, duh... I'm stupid. Ignore all posts made after 1 am nightly...

echo $UID . " " . $GUID does the same thing as id too I think. Been a while and I might be messing up my concatenation operators for sh/bash, so just use id.

venus_to_mars · Post by **venus_to_mars** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:16 am

First of all, after the 'slight' task of emerging GCC 3.4.4 and rebuilding toolchain and world a couple of times, everything went smoothly. The interface is well-done and everything seems to be working fine thus far.

A few minor grievances though:

I'm not sure if this is a gtk problem, but I'm not allowed to shrink tabs such as 'Description' 'Tag' and 'eMail' down once I get them as small as these names. I really don't care about users' email addresses, so in other DC programs I just shrink these tabs down to oblivion.

Second, I would like to second the request for slash commands, such as '/refresh'. I know that there is a hash button at the top, but there are plenty of other commands that would be nice to have back.

Again, thanks for all the effort.

Is there a decent dc++ client yet?

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