notify-send

Show a notification with the title "Test" and the content "This is a test"

$ notify-send "[Test]" "[This is a test]"

Show a notification with a custom icon

$ notify-send -i [icon.png] "[Test]" "[This is a test]"

Show a notification for 5 seconds

$ notify-send -t 5000 "[Test]" "[This is a test]"

Show a notification with an app's icon and name

$ notify-send "[Test]" --icon=[google-chrome] --app-name="[Google Chrome]"

notify-send [OPTIONS] {summary} [body]

With notify-send 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.

-?, --help

Show help and exit.

-u, --urgency=LEVEL

Specifies the urgency level (low, normal, critical).

-t, --expire-time=TIME

The duration, in milliseconds, for the notification to appear on screen.

(Ubuntus Notify OSD and GNOME Shell both ignore this parameter.)

-i, --icon=ICON[,ICON...]

Specifies an icon filename or stock icon to display.

-c, --category=TYPE[,TYPE...]

Specifies the notification category.

-h, --hint=TYPE:NAME:VALUE

Specifies basic extra data to pass. Valid types are INT, DOUBLE, STRING and BYTE.

Andre Filipe de Assuncao e Brito <decko@noisemakers.org>

Original author

Paul van Tilburg <paulvt@debian.org>

Original author

Riccardo Setti <giskard@debian.org>

Original author

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