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 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) 1.5.30 Jul 2022 IBUS(1)