Ekg2 is an open source instant messenger program for unix systems. the program has a plugin-based structure, and supports multiple protocols, currently jabber, icq, gadu-gadu, irc, rivchat, polchat, nntp and rss. also a generic filesystem-based communication mechanism called "xmsg" is supported.

this package contains the remote control program, which lets you use an instance of the main ekg2 program which runs on a different machine.