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1 | .\" -*-nroff-*- |
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2 | .TH xtell 1 "15 November 1998" "Edgeware tools" |
3 | .SH NAME |
4 | xtell \- prods a waiting xwait process |
5 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
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6 | .ll +5i |
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7 | .B xtell |
8 | .RB [ \-d |
9 | .IR display ] |
10 | .RB [ \-a |
11 | .IR atom ] |
12 | .RB [ \-m |
13 | .IR message ] |
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14 | .RI [ \c |
15 | .IB atom : msg , msg \c |
16 | \&...] |
17 | .ll -5i |
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18 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
19 | The |
20 | .B xtell |
21 | program sets a named property on the X root window to a particular |
22 | value. This is primarily useful for communicating with |
23 | .BR xwait (1). |
24 | .SS OPTIONS |
25 | .TP 5 |
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26 | .BI "\-d, \-\-display " display |
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27 | Attempt to connect to |
28 | .I display |
29 | rather than the display named in the usual environment variable. |
30 | .TP 5 |
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31 | .BI "\-a, \-\-atom " atom |
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32 | Sets |
33 | .B xtell |
34 | to to set the property named |
35 | .IR atom . |
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36 | Use of this option is deprecated. |
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37 | .TP 5 |
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38 | .BI "\-m, \-\-msg " message |
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39 | Sets |
40 | .B xtell |
41 | to set the given property to |
42 | .IR message . |
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43 | Use of this option is deprecated. |
44 | .PP |
45 | The |
46 | .B \-a |
47 | and |
48 | .B \-m |
49 | options are deprecated, though retained for compatibility reasons. It's |
50 | recommended that you use the non-option specification instead. |
51 | .PP |
52 | The argument specifies an atom name and a message string to set. The |
53 | default, if no atom or message is given, is to set |
54 | .B XWAIT_PROPERTY |
55 | to the value |
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56 | .BR XWAIT_MESSAGE . |
57 | .SH AUTHOR |
58 | Mark Wooding (mdw@nsict.org). |
59 | .SH BUGS |
60 | None currently known. |
61 | .SH SEE ALSO |
62 | .BR xwait (1), |
63 | and |
64 | .BR xshutdown (1). |