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