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NOTIFY-SEND(1) User Commands NOTIFY-SEND(1)


.SH "NAME" notify-send - a program to send desktop notifications


.SH "SYNOPSIS"


.HP 288u


notify-send
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"


.PP 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.


.SH "OPTIONS"


.PP -?, --help


Show help and exit.


.RE
.PP -a, --app-name=APP_NAME


Specifies the app name for the notification.


.RE
.PP -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).


.RE
.PP -u, --urgency=LEVEL


Specifies the urgency level (low, normal, critical).


.RE
.PP -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.


.RE
.PP -i, --icon=ICON


Specifies an icon filename or stock icon to display.


.RE
.PP -c, --category=TYPE[,TYPE...]


Specifies the notification category.


.RE
.PP -h, --hint=TYPE:NAME:VALUE


Specifies basic extra data to pass. Valid types are BOOLEAN, INT, DOUBLE, STRING, BYTE and VARIANT.


.RE
.PP -p, --print-id


Print the notification ID.


.RE
.PP -r, --replace-id=REPLACE_ID


The ID of the notification to replace.


.RE
.PP -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.


.RE
.PP -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.


.RE


.SH "SEE ALSO"


.PP 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
libnotify