Manual: notify-send

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

NAME
       notify-send - a program to send desktop notifications

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION
       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.

OPTIONS
       -?, --help
	   Show help and exit.

       -a, --app-name=APP_NAME
	   Specifies the app name for the notification.

       -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).

       --selected-action-fd=FILE_DESCRIPTOR
	   File descriptor where to write the action chosen by the user.

       --activation-token-fd=FILE_DESCRIPTOR
	   File descriptor where to write the action activation token. The daemon must support it.

       -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.

	   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.

       -i, --icon=ICON
	   Specifies an icon filename or stock icon to display.

       -n, --app-icon=ICON
	   Specifies an application icon filename or app icon name. The server may or may not display it.

       -c, --category=TYPE[,TYPE...]
	   Specifies the notification category.

       -h, --hint=TYPE:NAME:VALUE
	   Specifies basic extra data to pass. Valid types are BOOLEAN, INT, DOUBLE, STRING, BYTE and VARIANT.

       -p, --print-id
	   Print the notification ID.

       --id-fd=FILE_DESCRIPTOR
	   File descriptor where to write the notification ID.

       -r, --replace-id=REPLACE_ID
	   The ID of the notification to replace.

       -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.

       -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.

SEE ALSO
       The Desktop Notification Spec on https://specifications.freedesktop.org/notification-spec/.

AUTHORS
       Andre Filipe de Assuncao e Brito 
	   Original author

       Paul van Tilburg 
	   Original author

       Riccardo Setti 
	   Original author

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