notify-send - a program to send desktop notifications
notify-send [OPTIONS] <summary> [body]
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.
−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.
Help options:
−?, −−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 <decko AT noisemakers DOT org> and Paul van Tilburg <paulvt AT debian DOT org> and Riccardo Setti <giskard AT debian DOT org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).