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How libnotify works?

I'm confused with GNOME libnotify. As I understand, it is possible in GNOME to display a balloon window with an arbitrary text, like:

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bert [Entry]

"Libnotify is just the notification daemon - lots of programs use it, but you need a client to display the notification.

Yes, dbus is the protocol that handles the communication, but unless you're running into a permission problem, or send notificiation to another user or across the network, chasing dbus may be a waste of time.

The actual client on freebsd is (i think) notification-daemon."