A library that sends desktop notifications to a notification daemon, as defined in the Desktop Notifications spec. 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.

This is a wonderfully useful utility to display notifications from scripts that you might be running on your local desktop and want to get feedback from if something goes wrong, or simply when something completes. After installing the package you can execute /usr/bin/notify-send -t 0 “Summary” “Message.” This will then pop up with a notification on your desktop. The -t option specifies the timeout, zero being forever (until you close the notification).

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