.TH xtell 1 "15 November 1998" "Edgeware tools"
.SH NAME
xtell \- prods a waiting xwait process
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B xtell
.RB [ \-d
.IR display ]
.RB [ \-a
.IR atom ]
.RB [ \-m
.IR message ]
.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 .
The default property to set to is
.BR XWAIT_PROPERTY .
.TP 5
.BI "\-m, \-\-msg " message
Sets
.B xtell
to set the given property to
.IR message .
The default message to set is
.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).