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2 | .TH xtell 1 "15 November 1998" "Edgeware tools" |
3 | .SH NAME |
4 | xtell \- prods a waiting xwait process |
5 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
6 | .B xtell |
7 | .RB [ \-d |
8 | .IR display ] |
9 | .RB [ \-a |
10 | .IR atom ] |
11 | .RB [ \-m |
12 | .IR message ] |
13 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
14 | The |
15 | .B xtell |
16 | program sets a named property on the X root window to a particular |
17 | value. This is primarily useful for communicating with |
18 | .BR xwait (1). |
19 | .SS OPTIONS |
20 | .TP 5 |
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21 | .BI "\-d, \-\-display " display |
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22 | Attempt to connect to |
23 | .I display |
24 | rather than the display named in the usual environment variable. |
25 | .TP 5 |
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26 | .BI "\-a, \-\-atom " atom |
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27 | Sets |
28 | .B xtell |
29 | to to set the property named |
30 | .IR atom . |
31 | The default property to set to is |
32 | .BR XWAIT_PROPERTY . |
33 | .TP 5 |
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34 | .BI "\-m, \-\-msg " message |
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35 | Sets |
36 | .B xtell |
37 | to set the given property to |
38 | .IR message . |
39 | The default message to set is |
40 | .BR XWAIT_MESSAGE . |
41 | .SH AUTHOR |
42 | Mark Wooding (mdw@nsict.org). |
43 | .SH BUGS |
44 | None currently known. |
45 | .SH SEE ALSO |
46 | .BR xwait (1), |
47 | and |
48 | .BR xshutdown (1). |