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