def send_notification(title, text, display_time): knotify = SessionBus().get_object("org.kde.knotify", "/Notify") notif = knotify.event("warning", "kde", [], title, u"%s" % text, [], [], 0, 0, dbus_interface="org.kde.KNotify") sleep(display_time) knotify.closeNotification(notif) knotify = None