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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 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		     │gnome/gnome-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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