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

6       notify-send - a program to send desktop notifications
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SYNOPSIS

9       notify-send [OPTIONS] {summary} [body]
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DESCRIPTION

12       With notify-send you can send desktop notifications to the user via a
13       notification daemon from the command line. These notifications can be
14       used to inform the user about an event or display some form of
15       information without getting in the user’s way.
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OPTIONS

18       -?, --help
19           Show help and exit.
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21       -u, --urgency=LEVEL
22           Specifies the urgency level (low, normal, critical).
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24       -t, --expire-time=TIME
25           The duration, in milliseconds, for the notification to appear on
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28           (Ubuntu's Notify OSD and GNOME Shell both ignore this parameter.)
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30       -i, --icon=ICON[,ICON...]
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33       -c, --category=TYPE[,TYPE...]
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36       -h, --hint=TYPE:NAME:VALUE
37           Specifies basic extra data to pass. Valid types are INT, DOUBLE,
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SEE ALSO

41       The Desktop Notification Spec on
42       http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/.
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AUTHORS

45       Andre Filipe de Assuncao e Brito <decko@noisemakers.org>
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48       Paul van Tilburg <paulvt@debian.org>
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51       Riccardo Setti <giskard@debian.org>
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