IBUS(1) User Commands IBUS(1)

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 [ENGINENAME]
              Show the curent ibus engine when ENGINENAME is not  given.  Set
              ENGINENAME 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  sys‐
              tem  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
              IBUSCOMPONENTPATH 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 set‐
              tings are avaiable with ibus-setup (1) utility.


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


SEE ALSO
       ibus-emoji(7)



1.5.17                             May 2017                            IBUS(1)