| 1 | .\" -*-nroff-*- |
| 2 | .TH xtell 1 "15 November 1998" "Edgeware tools" |
| 3 | .SH NAME |
| 4 | xtell \- prods a waiting xwait process |
| 5 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 6 | .ll +5i |
| 7 | .B xtell |
| 8 | .RB [ \-d |
| 9 | .IR display ] |
| 10 | .RB [ \-a |
| 11 | .IR atom ] |
| 12 | .RB [ \-m |
| 13 | .IR message ] |
| 14 | .RI [ \c |
| 15 | .IB atom : msg , msg \c |
| 16 | \&...] |
| 17 | .ll -5i |
| 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 |
| 26 | .BI "\-d, \-\-display " display |
| 27 | Attempt to connect to |
| 28 | .I display |
| 29 | rather than the display named in the usual environment variable. |
| 30 | .TP 5 |
| 31 | .BI "\-a, \-\-atom " atom |
| 32 | Sets |
| 33 | .B xtell |
| 34 | to to set the property named |
| 35 | .IR atom . |
| 36 | Use of this option is deprecated. |
| 37 | .TP 5 |
| 38 | .BI "\-m, \-\-msg " message |
| 39 | Sets |
| 40 | .B xtell |
| 41 | to set the given property to |
| 42 | .IR message . |
| 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 |
| 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). |