How do I scroll through my torrents on rtorrent's main view?
Hello,
I recently filled my main view in the terminal completely with torrents in rtorrent. Now torrents on the "2nd page" seem to be placed to the right of torrents of the "1st page", which I can only access by increasing the terminal window size. Does anyone else use rtorrent and maybe know how to navigate to torrents that don't fit on the screen?
Posted Oct 21, 2021, 8:47 PM UTC
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I've never heard of anything being placed to the right of the main list. Usually you just use the up and down arrow keys to scroll through the list. If you use the left and right arrow keys you can go into more details about individual torrents. Number keys will change how they're sorted (1 is default, 2 sorts by name, 5 shows completed torrent...).
Do a search for 'rtorrent keyboard shortcuts', you'll find a number of cheatsheets that will help.
here you can see it: https://i.imgur.com/r3yptSQ.png
as you can see, the torrent is placed on the bottom right. I can navigate to it, but to see it I had to expand the window
Have you installed any plugins or modified rtorrent in some way? I've gone through every bit of documentation I can find, I cannot see any way to get the view you are showing (even on the 'active' tab when hitting the zero key), and I have the exact same version of rtorrent that you have.
The standard view in rtorrent shows the information for every torrent in three rows, not in a single row with neatly designated columns like your screenshot shows. I even tried restarting my copy while having the terminal open to full screen and it still comes up in the three-row view. And google doesn't seem to find anything about creating a single-row display. So the only thing I can think of is that you have installed a plugin or modified .rtorrent.rc to change how the screen is displayed?
Ah sorry, missed this comment earlier. I kinda answered it in my other comment earlier. I found the keybind to switch views when I installed rtorrent like a month or so ago. Haven't changed the view since then and forgot the keybind. Now I cannot find it again either, sorry. If ever find it again I'll try to remember to comment here again.
I think I might have found something... There is a setting in .rctorrent.rc labeled "ui.torrent_list.layout.set". The default is 'full', but I wonder if you have yours set to 'compact'? I haven't heard of this mode before so I'm not sure what it looks like, but it might be worth checking for this setting or adding it to your config to try the full mode. Your experience may indicate there is a bug in the compact mode?
Yea I am using the compact mode. I found a keybind a while ago to switch and I prefer it. When switching to the regular view everything works as one would expect (i.e. scrolling is possible). Very unfortunate, but I'll stick to the full mode then. Thank you very much! I kinda forgot that another mode even existed so I didn't think to try it out.
It's always fun to find new things when someone asks a question. My own setup seems to start having issues when I get too many torrents sitting idle, but then I see people seeding literally thousands of torrents. There's certainly still some issues here and there.
By the way, I also ran across something else while trying to find an answer for you. If you hit 0 (zero) it's supposed to show all active torrents, but it just gives the same view as the main (1) screen. Apparently there was a bug report filed for it and the author closed the ticket, however someone else provided a working solution to be added to your rc file...
I added this and now the active screen correctly shows only the torrents that are actually doing something. This may be my new preferred view!