Yeah. I enjoy doing stuff like that. I use mpc (via a bunch of scripts tied to my media keys) on the computer below to control the server, which in turn controls ncmpcpp.

The right monitor is used for a script that pings computers in my house, and if they're up, connects in a terminal over ssh and runs htop for each such cpu. It uses x11 to measure the location of the various tiles and places new tiles according to rules in the script.