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.TH xtell 1 "15 November 1998" "Edgeware tools"
.SH NAME
xtell \- prods a waiting xwait process
.SH SYNOPSIS
.ll +5i
.B xtell
.RB [ \-d
.IR display ]
.RB [ \-a
.IR atom ]
.RB [ \-m
.IR msg ]
.RI [ \c
.IB atom : msg \c
]
.ll -5i
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B xtell
program sets a named property on the X root window to a particular
value.  This is primarily useful for communicating with
.BR xwait (1).
.SS Options
.TP 5
.BI "\-d, \-\-display " display
Attempt to connect to
.I display
rather than the display named in the usual environment variable.
.TP 5
.BI "\-a, \-\-atom " atom
Sets
.B xtell
to to set the property named
.IR atom .
Use of this option is deprecated.
.TP 5
.BI "\-m, \-\-msg " msg
Sets
.B xtell
to set the given property to
.IR msg .
Use of this option is deprecated.
.PP
The
.B \-a
and
.B \-m
options are deprecated, though retained for compatibility reasons.  It's
recommended that you use the non-option specification instead.
.PP
The argument specifies an atom name and a message string to set.  The
default, if no atom or message is given, is to set
.B XWAIT_PROPERTY
to the value
.BR XWAIT_MESSAGE .
.SH AUTHOR
Mark Wooding (mdw@nsict.org).
.SH BUGS
None currently known.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR xwait (1),
and
.BR xshutdown (1).