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 in-
terface. 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 [--type=TYPE|--verbose|--help]
Restart ibus-daemon. This command tries to restart ibus-daemon
via systemd firstly and directly secondary by default. If
--type=systemd is given, It tries to restart via systemd only.
If --type=direct is given, It tries to restart with an IBus API
only. GNOME desktop runs ibus-daemon via systemd and other desk-
tops run ibus-daemon directly.
start [--type=TYPE|--verbose|--help]
Start ibus-daemon. This command tries to start ibus-daemon via
systemd firstly and directly secondary by default. If
--type=systemd is given, It tries to start as a background
process via systemd only. If --type=direct is given, It tries to
start directly only as a foreground process and other option ar-
guments of ibus command are sent to ibus-daemon. E.g. ibus
start --type=direct --xim & GNOME desktop runs ibus-daemon via
systemd and other desktops run ibus-daemon directly.
version
Show the ibus version.
read-cache [--system|--file=FILE|--help]
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|--help]
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 set-
tings are available with ibus-setup (1) utility.
im-module [--type=TYPE|--help]
Show an internal im-module value in a virtual GTK application.
If IBus is installed and configured properly, the output is
"ibus". This sub-command is useful for some users who build IBus
from the source codes and check the configurations. Currently
the sub-command supports GTK applications only and the default
is GTK3. If you wish to check a GTK4 application, you can spec-
ify --type=gtk4 option and you can choose one of "gtk2", "gtk3"
and "gtk4".
BUGS
If you find a bug, please report it at https://github.com/ibus/ibus/is-
sues
SEE ALSO
ibus-emoji(7)
1.5.27 Jul 2022 IBUS(1)
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