The title is optional. Options: -t: expire time in milliseconds. -u: urgency (low, normal, critical). -i: icon path. On Debian-based systems you may need to install the 'libnotify-bin' package. Useful to advise when a wget download or a simulation ends. Example: wget URL ; notify-send "Done"

You will need libnotify-bin for this to work: sudo aptitude install libnotify-bin

You can write a script that does this : remind <minutes> [<message>]

we don't need to export variables to set a env to a command, we may do this before the command directly

This is an alias you can add to your .bashrc file to get notified when a job you run in a terminal is done. example of use sleep 20; alert Source:http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/get-notified-when-job-you-run-in.html

This will be seen through your system's visual notification system, notify-osd, notification-daemon, etc. --- sleep accepts s,m,h,d and floats (date; sleep .25m; date) --- notify-send (-t is in milliseconds && -u low / normal / critical) man notify-send for more information --- notification-daemon can use b/i/u/a HTML

The simplest way to do it. Works for me, at least. (Why are the variables being set?)

you can put almost any command. notify-send -t 0 "MOTD" "$(sed -n '/#^4/,/#$4/{/#^4\|#$4/!p}' motd2 | cut -d# -f2)" notify-send -t 0 "readfile" "$(while read mess; do echo $mess;done < motd2)"

Route output to notify-send to show nice messages on the desktop, e.g. title and interpreter of the current radio stream

works best in a shell script run at startup. It will ping localhost once and output to null, after it does that, acpi is called for temperature in fahrenheit and piped through to another loop that feeds notify-send for a tooltip. After waiting five minutes, it will start over. Show Sample Output

Note: 1) -n option of watch accepts seconds 2) -t option of notify-send accepts milliseconds 3) All quotes stated in the given example are required if notification message is more than a word. 4) I couldn't get this to run in background (use of & at the end fails). Any suggestions/improvements welcome.

Use acpi and notify-send to report current temperature every five minutes. Works best in a shell script run at startup. acpi is called for temperature and fed to notify-send for a tooltip. After waiting five minutes, it will start over.

It willl popup a message for each new entry in /var/log/messages found on the notify-send howto page on ubuntuforums.org. Posted here only because it is one of the favourites of mine.

Will finish automagically when mplayer quits. Can be run from any directory. It seems to finish by it self rarely, probably because of some timing issue? There's probably a way around that which I can't think of right now Show Sample Output

Just pulls a quote for each day and displays it in a notification bubble... or you can change it a bit and just have it run in the terminal wget -q -O "quote" https://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_the_day;echo "Quote of the Day";cat quote | grep '&ldquo;\|/author/show' | sed -e 's/<[a-zA-Z\/][^>]*>//g' | sed 's/&ldquo;//g' | sed 's/&rdquo;//g'; rm -f quote Show Sample Output