[dllthomas]

As a very superficial example of this, pianobar is a fantastic terminal-based Pandora client that will happily read input from a FIFO. I had bound keys to issue various commands through the FIFO, on both my laptop and my desktop. Then I found my hands on my laptop keyboard when my music was playing from my desktop (or vice-versa). Simple application of netcat meant my commands could be typed at either keyboard.