1 .TH xwait 1 "15 November 1998" "Edgeware tools"
3 xwait \- wait until prodded by another X client
16 program waits until it notices that a particular property on the X root
17 window has been assigned a particular value, at which point the program
18 exits. The property can be set using the
22 programs. It's mostly useful for putting at the end of a user's
24 file, so that it can be triggered to end the session.
26 The property, and the value to listen for, can be configured at
27 the command line. When
29 exits, it removes the property from the root window.
35 to start up, even though there may be an existing process already
36 listening for the particular atom in question.
41 rather than the display named in the usual environment variable.
46 to listen for the property named
48 The default property to listen to is
54 to wait for the given property to be set to
56 The default message to wait for is
59 Mark Wooding (mdw@nsict.org).