notify-send(1) User Commands notify-send(1)NAMEnotify-send - a CLI program to send desktop notifications
SYNOPSISnotify-send [--help ] [--urgency=level] [--expire-time=time]
[--icon=icon,icon...] [--category=type,type...]
[--hint=type:name:value] [summary] [body]
DESCRIPTION
Using notify-send, you can send desktop notifications to the user via a
notification daemon from the command line. The notifications are used
to inform the user about an asynchronous event or display some useful
information without getting in the user's way.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-?, --help Display help text.
-u, --urgency=level Specifies the urgency level, including low,
normal and critical.
-t, --expire-time=time Specifies the timeout in milliseconds at which
to expire the notification.
-i, --icon=icons Specifies an icon filename or stock icon to
display.
-c, --category=types Specifies the notification category.
-h, --hint=hint Specifies basic extra data to pass. The format
is type:name:value and valid types are int,
double, string and byte
-v, --version Display version information.
EXIT STATUS
0 All information was written successfully.
>0 An error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │gnome/gnome-panel │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Interface stability │Volatile │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSO
The Desktop Notification Spec on http://www.galago-
project.org/specs/notification/.
NOTES
Written by Jedy Wang, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2007.
SunOS 5.11 28 Feb 2007 notify-send(1)