IBUS

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: May 2017
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NAME

ibus - command line utility for ibus

SYNOPSIS

ibus COMMAND [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

IBus is an Intelligent Input Bus. It is a new input framework for Linux OS. It provides full featured and user friendly input method user interface. It also may help developers to develop input method easily.

ibus is a command line utility which can restart or exit ibus-daemon, get or set the current ibus engine or list the ibus engines.

Homepage: https://github.com/ibus/ibus/wiki

COMMAND

help: Show the commands list.
engine [ENGINE_NAME]: Show the curent ibus engine when ENGINE_NAME is not given. Set ENGINE_NAME to the current ibus engine.
exit: Exit ibus-daemon.
list-engine: Show ibus engines list.
restart: Restart ibus-daemon.
version: Show the ibus version.
read-cache [--system|--file=FILE]: Show the content of the user registry cache if --system is not given. Show the content of the system registry cache if --system is given. Show the content of the custom registry cache FILE if --file=FILE is given.
write-cache [--system|--file=FILE]: Save the user registry cache if --system is not given. Save the system registry cache if --system is given. Save the custom registry cache FILE if --file=FILE is given.
By default, it reads the component XML files from the standard component directory (/usr/share/ibus/component), you can set IBUS_COMPONENT_PATH environment variable for custom component directories, separated by ':'.
address: Show the D-Bus address of ibus-daemon.
read-config: Print the setting values in a gsettings configuration file.
reset-config: Reset the user setting values to the default ones in a gsettings configuration file.
watch: Under construction.
emoji [--font=FONT|--lang=LANG|--help|--partial-match]: Launch IBus Emojier ( ibus-emoji (1) ) and save the selected emoji to your clipboard. Can choose an emoji font with --font option. Can choose a language of emoji annotations with --lang option. If LANG="en", IBus Emojier loads /usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-en.dict . --partial-match option enables to match annotations with a partial string. These settings are available with ibus-setup (1) utility.

BUGS

If you find a bug, please report it at https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues