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90b2c5d4 1.TH xtell 1 "15 November 1998" "Edgeware tools"
2.SH NAME
3xtell \- 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
13The
14.B xtell
15program sets a named property on the X root window to a particular
16value. This is primarily useful for communicating with
17.BR xwait (1).
18.SS OPTIONS
19.TP 5
f3b35b6b 20.BI "\-d, \-\-display " display
90b2c5d4 21Attempt to connect to
22.I display
23rather than the display named in the usual environment variable.
24.TP 5
f3b35b6b 25.BI "\-a, \-\-atom " atom
90b2c5d4 26Sets
27.B xtell
28to to set the property named
29.IR atom .
30The default property to set to is
31.BR XWAIT_PROPERTY .
32.TP 5
f3b35b6b 33.BI "\-m, \-\-msg " message
90b2c5d4 34Sets
35.B xtell
36to set the given property to
37.IR message .
38The default message to set is
39.BR XWAIT_MESSAGE .
40.SH AUTHOR
41Mark Wooding (mdw@nsict.org).
42.SH BUGS
43None currently known.
44.SH SEE ALSO
45.BR xwait (1),
46and
47.BR xshutdown (1).