---
name: "smart-notifier"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "smart-notifier"
version: "0.28-9"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/smart-notifier"
---

# smart-notifier(1)

dbus service and graphical disk health notifier

## NAME

smart-notifier - dbus service and graphical disk health notifier

## SYNOPSIS

**smart-notifier** *\[options\]*\

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **smart-notifier.**

**smart-notifier** is a dbus service/client pair. If run without options, it starts a dbus service and listens for messages send by the client (normally started from a script in /etc/smartd/run.d). These messages are then displayed on the screen of the user running the service. This program is designed to be run inside a user's graphical desktop session.

## OPTIONS

- **--notify**

  Run as a dbus client. Message text is read from stdin.

## AUTHOR

smart-notifier was written by Brian Sutherland \<jinty@web.de\>.

This manual page was written by Brian Sutherland \<jinty@web.de\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).