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. (Ubuntu's 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/.