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Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: November 2005
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NAME

notify-send - a program to send desktop notifications  

SYNOPSIS

notify-send [OPTIONS] <summary> [body]  

DESCRIPTION

With notify-send you can sends desktop notifications to the user via a notification daemon from the command line. These notifications can be used to inform the user about an event or display some form of information without getting in the user's way.  

OPTIONS

-u, --urgency=LEVEL Specifies the urgency level (low, normal, critical).
-t, --expire-time=TIME
Specifies the timeout in milliseconds at which to expire the notification.
-i, --icon=ICON[,ICON...]
Specifies an icon filename or stock icon to display.
-c, --category=TYPE[,TYPE...]
Specifies the notification category.
 

Help options:

-?, --help
Show this help message
-h, --hint=TYPE:NAME:VALUE
Specifies basic extra data to pass. Valid types are int, double, string and byte.
 

SEE ALSO

The Desktop Notification Spec on http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/.  

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Andre Filipe de Assuncao e Brito <decko@noisemakers.org> and Paul van Tilburg <paulvt@debian.org> and Riccardo Setti <giskard@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).


 

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