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ibus - command line utility for ibus

ibus COMMAND [/OPTION/]…

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

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.

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

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