README for notification-daemon-xfce USAGE Notification-daemon-xfce is a dbus daemon, so to use it, you need a frontend application to trigger the daemon. This application is libnotify. Libnotify provides bindings for applications and also a small application to manually send messages to the daemon: notify-send. Using notify-send: For a first test pop up type $ notify-send "Test notification" For more information about using notify-send $ notify-send --help