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 Riccardo Setti <giskard@debian.org> for the Debian project  (but  may  be
       used by others).

notify-send 0.2.2                                 November 2005                                        USAGE:(1)