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.TH xshutdown 1 "15 November 1998" "Edgeware tools"
.SH NAME
xshutdown \- asks for user confirmation before waking an xwait process
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B xshutdown
.RB [ \-\-display
.IR display ]
.RB [ \-a
.IR atom ]
.RB [ \-m
.IR message ]
.RB [ \-t
.IR title ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B xshutdown
program pops up a pretty GTK confirmation box asking the user whether he
(or she) wants to shutdown the current session.  If so, it sends a
message to a waiting
.B xwait
process, by setting a named property on the X root window to a particular
value.
.SS OPTIONS
.TP 5
.BI "\-\-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 xshutdown
to to set the property named
.IR atom .
The default property to set is
.BR XWAIT_PROPERTY .
.TP 5
.BI "\-m, \-\-msg " message
Sets
.B xshutdown
to set the given property to
.IR message .
The default message to set is
.BR XWAIT_MESSAGE .
.TP 5
.BI "\-p, \-\-prompt " prompt
Sets the prompt in the confirmation box to
.IR prompt .
.TP 5
.BI "\-t, \-\-title " title
Sets the window title to be
.IR title .
.SH AUTHOR
Mark Wooding (mdw@nsict.org).
.SH BUGS
None currently known.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR xwait (1),
and
.BR xtell (1).