Man1 - notify-send.1

notify-send - a program to send desktop notifications

notify-send [/OPTIONS/] {summary} [/body/]

With notify-send you can send 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.

-?, –help

Show help and exit.

-u, *–urgency*=/LEVEL/

Specifies the urgency level (low, normal, critical).

-t, *–expire-time*=/TIME/

The duration, in milliseconds, for the notification to appear on screen.

(Ubuntus Notify OSD and GNOME Shell both ignore this parameter.)

-i, *–icon*=/ICON/[,/ICON/…]

Specifies an icon filename or stock icon to display.

-c, *–category*=/TYPE/[,/TYPE/…]

Specifies the notification category.

-h, *–hint*=/TYPE/:/NAME/:/VALUE/

Specifies basic extra data to pass. Valid types are INT, DOUBLE, STRING and BYTE.

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

Andre Filipe de Assuncao e Brito <decko@noisemakers.org>

Original author

Paul van Tilburg <paulvt@debian.org>

Original author

Riccardo Setti <giskard@debian.org>

Original author