A program to send desktop notifications
notify-send [OPTIONS] <summary> [body]
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.
-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
Show this help message
-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/.
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).