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boinctui-extended is an curses-based terminal BOINC client manager for Linux - featuring added improvements over the original version

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Update 21st Dec 2022 - Most of the changes below have now been incorporated into suleman1971's upstream repo, so I would definitely advise that you download that project instead. I will not be maintaining this anymore, and I don't even do any distributed computed work these days.

boinctui-extended

Original code by Sergey Suslov (suleman1971@gmail.com)
Improved build by Mark Pentler (https://github.com/mpentler/)

Introduction

boinctui-extended is an curses-based terminal BOINC client manager for Linux. Features include:

  • Fullscreen curses-based text user interface
  • Switch between several hosts running the BOINC client via a hot key
  • View a host's task list (including each task's state)
  • View the BOINC log file in a separate window
  • Suspend/Resume/Abort control of all tasks
  • Update/Suspend/Resume/Reset/No New Task/Allow New Task for attached projects
  • Toggle activity state (Always suspend/Always resume/Run based on preferences)
  • Manage BOINC client on remote hosts via boinc_gui RPC protocol

Additionally other changes by me and from around GitHub have been merged into this fork:

  • Added an optional ID name field for each host - never lose track again!
  • Added a host counter
  • Transparent backgrounds supported
  • Added a hot key to go backwards in the server list
  • Added another hot key to bring up the menu in case of double-assignment
  • Increased precision of time displays
  • Code comments are being translated into English to assist in working with the codebase
  • Typos and some UI strings corrected
  • & other code improvements (addressed some cppcheck warnings & some build environment stuff)

Dependencies and Compiling

Dead easy, but you'll need to install a few libraries first. Here's some instructions for Raspbian, which is what I'm doing this on. I have no idea if the package names are different on other distributions.

If you don't have git installed, install it now:

sudo apt-get install git

Clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/mpentler/boinctui-extended.git

now install the dependencies:

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libexpat1-dev libncursesw5-dev libgnutls-openssl27 autoconf make boinc-client

When complete, enter the boinctui-extended folder:

cd boinctui-extended

Then to compile:

autoconf
./configure
make

Finally, to install:

sudo make install

and you're done!

Configuration

After starting the application you can do a few things:

  • Connect to an account manager in the project menu
  • Attach to projects manually
  • Control individual tasks on hosts
  • Add other BOINC hosts to control
  • Configure displayed columns and sort order
  • Configure BOINC network and run modes

All of these options are in the menus (M key or F9) and are self-explanatory.

Useful hot keys

  • M/F9 - Open menus
  • N - Show next host in the list
  • P - Show previous host in the list
  • C - Configure host list
  • V - View statistics
  • Arrow keys - Navigate task list and menus (mouse also supported!)
  • S - Suspend selected task
  • R - Resume (or queue) selected task
  • A - Abort selected task (requires confirmation)
  • Enter - View extended info for a task
  • Q - Quit boinctui-extended (hit Escape to close windows first)

Issues

Nothing specific, but I've had a few segmentation faults with the original codebase so it needs a good pruning by someone who actually knows C++ - maybe that's you!?

Acknowledgments

Additions to the original codebase that aren't mine are from the following GitHub users:

  • DerVerruckteFuchs - transparent backgrounds
  • zeekec - improved time display, menu hot key, and some code & build improvements
  • vorot93 - code improvements
  • rustyshackleford36 - rewrite of readme.md

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