IBUS
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: Jul 2022
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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 [--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 desktops 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 arguments 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
--system
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 settings
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
specify
--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/issues
SEE ALSO
ibus-emoji(7)
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