NAME
notify-send - a program to send desktop notifications
SYNOPSIS
notify-send [OPTIONS] {summary}
[body]
DESCRIPTION
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.
OPTIONS
-?, --help
Show help and exit.
-a, --app-name=APP_NAME
Specifies the app name for the notification.
-A, --action=[NAME=]Text...
Specifies the actions to display to the user. Implies
--wait to wait for user input. May be set multiple times. The
NAME of the action is output to stdout. If NAME is not
specified, the numerical index of the option is used (starting with 1).
--selected-action-fd=FILE_DESCRIPTOR
File descriptor where to write the action chosen by the
user.
--activation-token-fd=FILE_DESCRIPTOR
File descriptor where to write the action activation
token. The daemon must support it.
-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.
-n, --app-icon=ICON
Specifies an application icon filename or app icon name.
The server may or may not display it.
-c, --category=TYPE[,TYPE...]
Specifies the notification category.
-h, --hint=TYPE:NAME:VALUE
Specifies basic extra data to pass. Valid types are
BOOLEAN, INT, DOUBLE, STRING, BYTE and VARIANT.
-p, --print-id
Print the notification ID.
--id-fd=FILE_DESCRIPTOR
File descriptor where to write the notification ID.
-r, --replace-id=REPLACE_ID
The ID of the notification to replace.
-w, --wait
Wait for the notification to be closed before exiting. If
the expire-time is set, it will be used as the maximum waiting
time.
-e, --transient
Show a transient notification. Transient notifications
by-pass the server's persistence capability, if any. And so it won't be
preserved until the user acknowledges it.
SEE
ALSO
The Desktop Notification Spec on
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/notification-spec/.
AUTHORS
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
