notify-send (1) Linux Manual Page
notify-send – a program to send desktop notifications
Synopsis
- notify-send [OPTIONS] {summary} [body]
Description
Options
-?, –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.
See Also
The Desktop Notification Spec on m[blue]http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/m[].Authors
Andre Filipe de Assuncao e Brito <decko [at] noisemakers.org>- Original author
Paul van Tilburg <paulvt [at] debian.org>
- Original author
Riccardo Setti <giskard [at] debian.org>
- Original author