thunar-torrent-property

A small thunar extension displaying the metadata in a torrent file.

Features

• Works with both thunarx-2.0 and thunarx-3.0
• Fetches the number of seeders / leechers currently available
• Display a list of tracker URLs
• Display the files described by the torrent file in a tree-based viewer

Usage

1. Right Click on a torrent file and open Properties...
2. Go to the Torrent tab
3. ???
4. Profit.

Installation

Dependencies

Build

• cmake
• make or Ninja
• a C and C++ compiler (at the moment, only gcc is actively supported)

Runtime dependencies

• gtk+-2.0
• thunarx (installed with XFCE / Thunar)
• libtorrent (the rasterbar version), >= 1.1.0
• Boost/system (required to interface with libtorrent)

Installing dependencies (tested distributions)

ArchLinux

pacman -S base-devel cmake libtorrent-rasterbar thunar gtk2 boost

Ubuntu >= 16.10 (yakkety)

apt install cmake libthunarx-2-dev libgtk2.0-dev \
    libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-system-dev libglib2.0-dev \
    build-essential libssl-dev libtorrent-rasterbar-dev

Ubuntu >= 19.04 (disco)

apt install cmake libthunarx-3-dev libgtk2.0-dev \
    libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-system-dev libglib2.0-dev \
    build-essential libssl-dev libtorrent-rasterbar-dev

Fedora

dnf install gtk+-devel boost-devel cmake gcc Thunar-devel \
    rb_libtorrent-devel make gcc-c++

Building from source

This project uses CMake. Start by creating a directory to do an an out-of-source build:

mkdir build
cd build

By default, the target thunarx version is detected automatically using pkg-config. Set the THUNARX_TARGET_VERSION variable to 2 or 3 to manually select the version to build against.

Ninja

cmake .. -GNinja
ninja
sudo ninja install

Make

cmake ..
make
sudo make install

Both commands will install a single file, thunar-torrent-property.so, in the extensions directory of Thunar (you can check where that directory is running pkg-config --variable=extensionsdir thunarx-X, most of the time it will be /usr/lib/thunarx-X or /lib/thunarx-X) where X is either 2 or 3 depending on your library version.