Can I get transmission to quit instead of minimize?

Question

Transmission has this incredibly aggravating tendency to not stop when I click the exit button.

Instead, it minimizes. When I click to exit, I want the program to cease immediately, but I can't figure out how to do so via the preference menus. Is there even a way to do this?

Same as this? http://askubuntu.com/questions/17134/rhythmbox-still-plays-songs-after-exit/ — fossfreedom, Apr 08 '13 at 13:41
I did not see that question, but what about for transmission? — acolyte, Apr 08 '13 at 13:46
also could be this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/transmission/+bug/977132 — Rinzwind, Apr 08 '13 at 13:51
@Rinzwind what will stopping that do? Will I need to run that every time i want to close transmission? — acolyte, Apr 08 '13 at 13:59
Since we have a q+a for rhythmbox I edited this question to be just about transmission. — Jorge Castro, Apr 08 '13 at 14:06
@Rinzwind that really doesn't answer anything...what does that command do? — acolyte, Apr 08 '13 at 14:09
@Rinzwind Does it change the behavior of clicking the exit button? — acolyte, Apr 08 '13 at 14:11
@Rinzwind: I just searched around for transmission-daemon. I think this is different from what we get in standard Ubuntu install (although made by the same developers). So, stopping the daemon wouldn't work in this case since it isn't running in the first place (most probably). — Aditya, Apr 08 '13 at 14:21

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 08 '13 at 14:03

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Transmission:

Disable the checkbox beside Show Transmission icon in the notification area. You would find this option under Edit Menu → Preferences → Desktop Tab.

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answered Apr 08 '13 at 14:03

Aditya

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So is it possible to disable this pointless "intelligent" quitting? If i click "exit", I want the thing to stop, not keep going. If i anted it to continue running, I wouldn't have clicked "exit". Thanks for the Transmission info, though. I'll try that out when I get home tonight. – acolyte Apr 08 '13 at 14:08
Not sure if it is possible to quit Rhythmbox in the way you desire (although I think the way it decides to quit or not makes much more sense). If I were in your position and desired the functionality to actually close the application I would have used another music application - vlc, banshee, etc and made them the default for music. – Aditya Apr 08 '13 at 14:14
Funny, I came here searching for the exact opposite thing, shouting “who makes these things, don't they know that users expect these things to run in the background normally unless explicitly closed from the tray”. Looks like it's off by default now, but you can never please 'em all! – Lazar Ljubenović Nov 19 '23 at 10:36

Can I get transmission to quit instead of minimize?

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