Re: [gtk-gnutella-users] Background mode, command line interface, and console interface.

[Jamie Landeg-J. <ja...@ca...>]

Schimon Jehudah via gtk-gnutella-users <gtk...@li...> wrote:

> Is there a future plan to have a background mode (i.e. so called
> "daemon"), which the graphical and command line interfaces could
> interact communicate with?

That would be the "headless' mode I mentioned - Raphael Manfredi runs
various of these daemons on some of his servers, and on some of mine.

The servers don't have any X components installed, they just run
as daemons.

The cli communicates with the daemon over the socket, as mentioned in
those links.

I'm not an expert in how this is all put together, because I don't actually
run it myself, but I know it exists.

Looking at one such instance now, it only links against the following
extenal libraries:

libgobject-2 libglib-2 libintl libz libm libiconv libthr libc libpcre libffi

Simply launch it as a background daemon - with no X dependencies, it doesn't
try to open a GUI window, and will just run until manually killed.

Cheers, Jamie