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For my money, just having the four buttons in displayserver isn't that exciting to me for day-to-day usage. I'm looking forward to the day when Frank's applet includes a clickable picture of the remote control, too...



I've done this. I wrote a little xlib app that sits on my desktop and sends udp packets
to a small program running on the empeg (that feeds packets to Frank's modified IR
driver). This allows me to have a "remote control" on any computer on the network.

With some streaming software (my next ambition), this will make a simple office jukebox...

Right now, it just loads an xpm (that uses extended info to specify which remote command
to send), so I'm just using some hand-drawn ones. I'm in the middle of moving from one
town to the next, so I've not a lot of free time. It looks like sometime in February I'll be
able to clean this up and release it.

-j