+.\" -*-nroff-*-
.TH xshutdown 1 "15 November 1998" "Edgeware tools"
.SH NAME
xshutdown \- asks for user confirmation before waking an xwait process
.SH SYNOPSIS
+.ll +5i
.B xshutdown
.RB [ \-\-display
.IR display ]
.RB [ \-a
.IR atom ]
.RB [ \-m
-.IR message ]
+.IR msg ]
+.if n \{\
+.br
+\h'1i'
+..
.RB [ \-t
.IR title ]
+.RI [ \c
+.IB atom : msg \c
+]
+.ll -5i
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.B xshutdown
.B xwait
process, by setting a named property on the X root window to a particular
value.
-.SS OPTIONS
+.SS Options
.TP 5
.BI "\-\-display " display
Attempt to connect to
.B xshutdown
to to set the property named
.IR atom .
-The default property to set is
-.BR XWAIT_PROPERTY .
+This option is deprecated.
.TP 5
-.BI "\-m, \-\-msg " message
+.BI "\-m, \-\-msg " msg
Sets
.B xshutdown
to set the given property to
-.IR message .
-The default message to set is
-.BR XWAIT_MESSAGE .
+.IR msg .
+This option is deprecated.
.TP 5
.BI "\-p, \-\-prompt " prompt
Sets the prompt in the confirmation box to
.BI "\-t, \-\-title " title
Sets the window title to be
.IR title .
+.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