| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 " 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). |