Libnotify

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libnotify is a client library for sending desktop notifications to a notification daemon on the Linux desktop. It communicates with the notification server over D-Bus following the freedesktop.org Desktop Notifications specification, and can create notifications with a title, body, icon, and action buttons. The command-line tool notify-send uses this library.

See also

• Push technology
• notify-send