NAME¶
notify-send - a program to send desktop notifications
SYNOPSIS¶
notify-send [
OPTIONS]
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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).