---
name: "xwrited"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "xwrited"
version: "3-2+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/xwrited"
---

# xwrited(1)

display write and wall messages as desktop notifications

## NAME

xwrited - display write and wall messages as desktop notifications

## SYNOPSIS

**xwrited** \[**-q** \| **--quit**\] \[**-V** \| **--version**\]

## DESCRIPTION

The **xwrited** utility displays [**write**(1)](/write/1.md) and [**wall**(1)](/wall/1.md) messages as desktop notifications. A notification daemon compliant to the freedesktop.org Desktop Notification Specification draft needs to be running in order to display the notifications.

## OPTIONS

The following options are supported:

- **-q**, **--quit**

  Quit the running instance of **xwrited**.

- **-V**, **--version**

  Print the version number and exit.

## EXIT STATUS

The following exit values are returned:

0

Command successfully executed.

\> 0

An error has occured.

## SEE ALSO

[**write**(1)](/write/1.md), [**wall**(1)](/wall/1.md)

## NOTES

xwrited assumes that messages are encoded in UTF-8 because there is no way for it to determine the character set encoding of the received data.