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USAGE:(1)			 User Commands			     USAGE:(1)

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 informa‐
       tion without getting in the user's way.

OPTIONS
       -u, --urgency=LEVEL Specifies the urgency level	(low,  normal,	criti‐
       cal).

       -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)

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