debian man page for notify-send

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NAME
       notify-send - a program to send desktop notifications

SYNOPSIS
       notify-send [OPTIONS] <summary> [body]

DESCRIPTION
       With  notify-send you can sends 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
       -u, --urgency=LEVEL Specifies the urgency level (low, normal, critical).

       -t, --expire-time=TIME
	      Specifies the timeout in milliseconds at which to expire the notification.

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

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

	  Help options:

       -?, --help
	      Show this help message

       -h, --hint=TYPE:NAME:VALUE
	      Specifies basic extra data to pass. Valid types are int, double, string and byte.

       SEE ALSO
	      The Desktop Notification Spec on http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/.

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by Andre Filipe de Assuncao e Brito <decko@noisemakers.org> and Paul van Tilburg <paulvt@debian.org> and  Ric-
       cardo Setti <giskard@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

notify-send 0.2.2						   November 2005							 USAGE:(1)