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.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Andre Filipe de Assuncao e Brito <[email protected]> and Paul van Tilburg <[email protected]> and Riccardo Setti <[email protected]> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).