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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
   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).