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Notification Icon

Use the --notification option to create a notification icon.

--text=text

Specifies the text that is displayed in the notification area.

--listen=icon: 'text', message: 'text', tooltip: 'text', visible: 'text',

Listens for commands at standard input. At least one command must be specified. Commands are comma separated. A command must be followed by a colon and a value.

The icon command also accepts four stock icon values such as error, info, question and warning.

The following example script shows how to create a notification icon:

  #!/bin/sh

  zenity --notification\
    --window-icon="info" \
    --text="There are system updates necessary!"

Notification Icon Example

Zenity notification icon example

The following example script shows how to create a notification icon along with --listen:

  #!/bin/sh
  cat <<EOH| zenity --notification --listen
  message: this is the message text
  EOH

Notification Icon with --listen Example

Zenity notification with --listen example