pinotify.1

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.TH pinotify 1
.SH NAME
pinotify \- Send desktop notification to notify-daemon

.SH SYNOPSYS
\fBpinotify\fR \fIsummary\fR \fIbody1\fR \fIbody2\fR ...

.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBpinotify\fR(1) communicates with \fBnotify-daemon\fR(8) to send desktop
notifications. It uses a named pipe to send messages to
\fBnotify-daemon\fR(8). The default named pipe is
\fIrundir/notify-desktop/notify-fifo\fR which can be changed by setting
\fBNOTIFYFIFO\fR environment variable. \fIrundir\fR is /run, /var/run or /tmp
depending on your system.

\fBpinotify\fR(1) uses the following format for the message written to the
named pipe (here <sp> stands for the white space character)

.EX
\fIsummary:stext\fR\\n\fIbody1:btext\fR\\n\fIbody2:btext\fR\\n\fBend:\\n"
.EE

where \fIstext\fR is the summary that will be used for desktop notification
and \fIbtext\fR is the body text that will be used for desktop
notification. See the man page for notify-send(1).


.SH RETURN VALUE
0 if all steps were successful, non-zero otherwise. A diagnostic message is
printed if pinotify encounters any error. If any systerm error is encountered,
the return value will be 111.

.SH AUTHORS
Manvendra Bhangui <lcd-daemon@indimail.org>

.SH "SEE ALSO"
supervise(8), svc(8), envdir(8), multilog(8), pilcd(1), lcd-daemon(8),
notify-daemon(8)