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notify-send

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] [sum-
       mary] [body]

DESCRIPTION

       Using notify-send, you can send desktop notifications to the user via a notification daemon from the command line.  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(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-panel		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

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

NOTES

       Written by Jedy Wang, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2007.

SunOS 5.11							    28 Feb 2007 						    notify-send(1)

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