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
              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.

BUGS

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

SEE ALSO

       ibus-emoji(7)

1.5.26                                              May 2017                                             IBUS(1)