It is not possible to send mac to sleep with the Apple remote

Normally, it is possible to put a mac to sleep by holding the play button on the Apple remote for some seconds. This does not work with the latest version of VLC (and none of the previous ones, AFAIK). This can be very inconvenient.

MacOS X 10.6.5, VLC 1.1.5, mac mini mid 2010

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