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1 | .TH xtell 1 "15 November 1998" "Edgeware tools" |
2 | .SH NAME |
3 | xtell \- prods a waiting xwait process |
4 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
5 | .B xtell |
6 | .RB [ \-d |
7 | .IR display ] |
8 | .RB [ \-a |
9 | .IR atom ] |
10 | .RB [ \-m |
11 | .IR message ] |
12 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
13 | The |
14 | .B xtell |
15 | program sets a named property on the X root window to a particular |
16 | value. This is primarily useful for communicating with |
17 | .BR xwait (1). |
18 | .SS OPTIONS |
19 | .TP 5 |
20 | .BI "\-d " display |
21 | Attempt to connect to |
22 | .I display |
23 | rather than the display named in the usual environment variable. |
24 | .TP 5 |
25 | .BI "\-a " atom |
26 | Sets |
27 | .B xtell |
28 | to to set the property named |
29 | .IR atom . |
30 | The default property to set to is |
31 | .BR XWAIT_PROPERTY . |
32 | .TP 5 |
33 | .BI "\-m " message |
34 | Sets |
35 | .B xtell |
36 | to set the given property to |
37 | .IR message . |
38 | The default message to set is |
39 | .BR XWAIT_MESSAGE . |
40 | .SH AUTHOR |
41 | Mark Wooding (mdw@nsict.org). |
42 | .SH BUGS |
43 | None currently known. |
44 | .SH SEE ALSO |
45 | .BR xwait (1), |
46 | and |
47 | .BR xshutdown (1). |