NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

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.

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