---
name: "btdownloadgui.bittornado"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "bittornado-gui"
version: "0.3.18-10.3"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/btdownloadgui.bittornado"
---

# btdownloadgui.bittornado(1)

GUI bittorrent download interface

## NAME

btdownloadgui — GUI bittorrent download interface

## SYNOPSIS

**btdownloadgui** \[**options** ...\]  *URL*

**btdownloadgui** \[**options** ...\]  *filename*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the  **btdownloadgui** command.

This manual page was written for the **Debian** distribution  because the original program does not have a manual page.

**btdownloadgui** is a GUI interface to download torrents.

**btdownloadgui** will open a provided torrent *URL* or  *file* and download it until complete. It will then seed (upload) the torrent until it is stopped.

## OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax,  with long options starting with two dashes (\`--').  A summary of  options is included below.

In addition to the program-specific options described below, this program uses the same common  options as the other bittorrent downloaders, which are documented in  **bittorrent-downloader(1)**.

- **--win32\_taskbar\_icon** 0\|1

  whether to iconize to the system try or not (only for win32) (defaults to 1)

- **--gui\_stretchwindow** 0\|1

  whether to stretch the download status window to fit the torrent name (defaults to 0)

- **--gui\_displaystats** 0\|1

  whether to display statistics on peers and seeds (defaults to 1)

- **--gui\_displaymiscstats** 0\|1

  whether to display miscellaneous other statistics (defaults to 1)

- **--gui\_ratesettingsdefault** automatic\|unlimited\|dialup/isdn\|dsl/cable slow\|dsl/cable fast\|T1\|T3+\|seeder

  the default rate setting to use for maximum upload rate  (options are 'automatic', 'unlimited', 'dialup/isdn', 'dsl/cable slow', 'dsl/cable fast', 'T1', 'T3+', 'seeder')  (defaults to 'automatic')

- **--gui\_ratesettingsmode** none\|basic\|full

  the rate setting controls to display (options are 'none', 'basic', and 'full')  (defaults to 'full')

- **--gui\_forcegreenonfirewall** 0\|1

  forces the status icon to be green even if the client seems to be firewalled (defaults to 0)

- **--gui\_default\_savedir** *directory*

  the default *directory* to save to (defaults to '')

- **--last\_saved** *directory*

  the *directory* where the last torrent was saved (defaults to '')

- **--gui\_font** *size*

  the font *size* to use (defaults to 10)

- **--gui\_saveas\_ask** 0\|1\|-1

  whether to ask where to download to (0 = never, 1 = always, -1 = automatic resume)  (defaults to 0)

- **--gui\_checkingcolor** *color*

  the *color* to use for the progress bar when checking (defaults to '92 91 8d')

- **--gui\_downloadcolor** *color*

  the *color* to use for the progress bar when downloading (defaults to '4b 69 83')

- **--gui\_seedingcolor** *color*

  the *color* to use for the progress bar when seeding (defaults to '00 ff 00')

## SEE ALSO

**bittorrent-downloader(1)**,  **btdownloadcurses(1)**,  **btdownloadheadless(1)**,

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Cameron Dale \<camrdale@gmail.com\> (based on the original man pages written by Micah Anderson \<micah@debian.org\>) for  the **Debian** system (but may be used by others).  Permission is  granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under  the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any  later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public  License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.