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<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<info>
<date>November 2005</date>
<productname>libnotify</productname>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<personname>Andre Filipe de Assuncao e Brito</personname>
<email>decko@noisemakers.org</email>
<contrib>Original author</contrib>
</author>
<author>
<personname>Paul van Tilburg</personname>
<email>paulvt@debian.org</email>
<contrib>Original author</contrib>
</author>
<author>
<personname>Riccardo Setti</personname>
<email>giskard@debian.org</email>
<contrib>Original author</contrib>
</author>
</authorgroup>
</info>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>notify-send</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class="manual">User Commands</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>notify-send</refname>
<refpurpose>a program to send desktop notifications</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>notify-send</command>
<arg choice="opt">
<replaceable>OPTIONS</replaceable>
</arg>
<arg choice="req">
<replaceable>summary</replaceable>
</arg>
<arg choice="opt">
<replaceable>body</replaceable>
</arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsection>
<info><title>Description</title></info>
<para>With <command>notify-send</command> 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.</para>
</refsection>
<refsection>
<info><title>Options</title></info>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-?</option>, <option>--help</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Show help and exit.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-a</option>, <option>--app-name</option>=<replaceable>APP_NAME</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>Specifies the app name for the notification.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-A</option>, <option>--action</option>=[<replaceable>NAME</replaceable>=]<replaceable>Text...</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>Specifies the actions to display to the user. Implies <option>--wait</option> to wait for user input. May be set multiple times. The <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> of the action is output to <literal>stdout</literal>. If <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> is not specified, the numerical index of the option is used (starting with <literal>1</literal>).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-u</option>, <option>--urgency</option>=<replaceable>LEVEL</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>Specifies the urgency level (<literal>low</literal>, <literal>normal</literal>, <literal>critical</literal>).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-t</option>, <option>--expire-time</option>=<replaceable>TIME</replaceable>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>The duration, in milliseconds, for the notification to appear on screen.</para>
<para>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.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-i</option>, <option>--icon</option>=<replaceable>ICON</replaceable>
</term>
<listitem>
<para>Specifies an icon filename or stock icon to display.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-c</option>, <option>--category</option>=<replaceable>TYPE</replaceable>[,<replaceable>TYPE</replaceable>…]
</term>
<listitem>
<para>Specifies the notification category.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-h</option>, <option>--hint</option>=<replaceable>TYPE</replaceable>:<replaceable>NAME</replaceable>:<replaceable>VALUE</replaceable> </term>
<listitem>
<para>Specifies basic extra data to pass. Valid types are <literal>BOOLEAN</literal>, <literal>INT</literal>, <literal>DOUBLE</literal>, <literal>STRING</literal>, <literal>BYTE</literal> and <literal>VARIANT</literal>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-p</option>, <option>--print-id</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Print the notification ID.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-r</option>, <option>--replace-id</option>=<replaceable>REPLACE_ID</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>The ID of the notification to replace.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-w</option>, <option>--wait</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Wait for the notification to be closed before exiting. If the <option>expire-time</option> is set, it will be used as the maximum waiting time.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>-e</option>, <option>--transient</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>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.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsection>
<refsection>
<info><title>See also</title></info>
<para>The Desktop Notification Spec on <link xlink:href="http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/">http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/</link>.</para>
</refsection>
</refentry>
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