dunstify - Man Page

• Show a notification with a given title and message: dunstify "Title" "Message"
• Show a notification with the specified urgency: dunstify "Title" "Message" [-u|--urgency] low|normal|critical
• Specify a message ID (overwrites any previous messages with the same ID): dunstify "Title" "Message" [-r|--replace] 123
• Display help: dunstify [-?|--help]

tldr.sh

dunstify [OPTION...] SUMMARY [BODY]

Dunstify is a notify-send alternative that can be used to send desktop notifications from the command line.

-?,  --help

Show help options.

-a,  --appname=NAME

Set the app name of the notification.

-u,  --urgency=URG

Set the urgency level (low, normal, critical) of the notification.

-h,  --hints=HINT

Specifies hints to pass. Valid types are BOOLEAN, INT, DOUBLE, STRING, BYTE and VARIANT.

-A,  --action=ACTION

Specifies the actions to display to the user.

-t,  --timeout=TIMEOUT

The time in milliseconds until the notification expires.

-i,  --icon=ICON

Specifies an icon to display with the notification.

-I,  --raw_icon=PATH

Path to the icon to be sent as raw image data.

-c,  --category=TYPE

The category of this notification.

--capabilities

Print the server capabilities and exit.

-s,  --serverinfo

Print server information and exit.

-p,  --printid

Print id, which can be used to update/replace this notification.

-r,  --replace=ID

Set the id of this notification to The ID of the notification to replace.

-C,  --close=ID

Close the notification with the specified ID.

-b,  --block

Block until notification is closed and print close reason.

notify-send(1), dunst(5), dunstctl(1), dunst(1)

dunst(1), dunst(5).