November 2005 libnotify 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 notify-send 1 User Commands 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. Not all implementations use this parameter. GNOME Shell and Notify OSD always ignore it, while Plasma ignores it for notifications with the critical urgency level. -i, --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/.