notify-send - a CLI program to send desktop notifications
notify-send [--help] [--urgency=level] [--expire-time=time] [--icon=icon,icon...] [--category=type,type...] [--hint=type:name:value] [summary] [body]
notify-send(1) User Commands notify-send(1) NAME notify-send - a CLI program to send desktop notifications SYNOPSIS notify-send [--help] [--urgency=level] [--expire-time=time] [--icon=icon,icon...] [--category=type,type...] [--hint=type:name:value] [summary] [body] DESCRIPTION Using notify-send, you can send desktop notifications from the command line to the user via a notification daemon. The notifications are used to inform the user about an asynchronous event or display some useful information without getting in the user's way. OPTIONS The following options are supported: -?, --help Display help text. -u, --urgency=level Specifies the urgency level, including low, normal and critical. -t, --expire-time=time Specifies the timeout in milliseconds at which to expire the notification. -i, --icon=icons Specifies an icon filename or stock icon to display. -c, --category=types Specifies the notification category. -h, --hint=hint Specifies basic extra data to pass. The format is type:name:value and valid types are int, double, string and byte -v, --version Display version information. EXIT STATUS 0 All information was written successfully. >0 An error occurred. ATTRIBUTES See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+---------------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+---------------------------+ |Availability | library/desktop/libnotify | +---------------+---------------------------+ |Stability | Pass-through volatile | +---------------+---------------------------+ SEE ALSO libnotify(3lib) The Desktop Notification Spec on http://www.galago- project.org/specs/notification/. NOTES Written by Jedy Wang, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2007. This software was built from source available at https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from https://download.gnome.org/sources/libno- tify/0.7/libnotify-0.7.7.tar.xz Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at https://developer.gnome.org/libnotify/. Solaris 11.4 7 Apr 2017 notify-send(1)