1NOTIFY-SEND(1) User Commands NOTIFY-SEND(1)
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6 notify-send - a program to send desktop notifications
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9 notify-send [OPTIONS] {summary} [body]
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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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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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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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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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