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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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