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       -a, --app-name=APP_NAME
22           Specifies the app name for the notification.
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24       -A, --action=[NAME=]Text...
25           Specifies the actions to display to the user. Implies --wait to
26           wait for user input. May be set multiple times. The NAME of the
27           action is output to stdout. If NAME is not specified, the numerical
28           index of the option is used (starting with 1).
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30       -u, --urgency=LEVEL
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33       -t, --expire-time=TIME
34           The duration, in milliseconds, for the notification to appear on
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37           Not all implementations use this parameter. GNOME Shell and Notify
38           OSD always ignore it, while Plasma ignores it for notifications
39           with the critical urgency level.
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41       -i, --icon=ICON
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44       -c, --category=TYPE[,TYPE...]
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47       -h, --hint=TYPE:NAME:VALUE
48           Specifies basic extra data to pass. Valid types are BOOLEAN, INT,
49           DOUBLE, STRING, BYTE and VARIANT.
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51       -p, --print-id
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54       -r, --replace-id=REPLACE_ID
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57       -w, --wait
58           Wait for the notification to be closed before exiting. If the
59           expire-time is set, it will be used as the maximum waiting time.
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61       -e, --transient
62           Show a transient notification. Transient notifications by-pass the
63           server's persistence capability, if any. And so it won't be
64           preserved until the user acknowledges it.
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SEE ALSO

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

71       Andre Filipe de Assuncao e Brito <decko@noisemakers.org>
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74       Paul van Tilburg <paulvt@debian.org>
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77       Riccardo Setti <giskard@debian.org>
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