2 .TH xtell 1 "15 November 1998" "Straylight/Edgeware" "xtoys"
4 xtell \- prods a waiting xwait process
21 program sets a named property on the X root window to a particular
22 value. This is primarily useful for communicating with
26 .BI "\-d, \-\-display " display
29 rather than the display named in the usual environment variable.
31 .BI "\-a, \-\-atom " atom
34 to to set the property named
36 Use of this option is deprecated.
38 .BI "\-m, \-\-msg " msg
41 to set the given property to
43 Use of this option is deprecated.
49 options are deprecated, though retained for compatibility reasons. It's
50 recommended that you use the non-option specification instead.
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
58 Mark Wooding (mdw@nsict.org).