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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)

1.5.29-rc2                         Jul 2022                            IBUS(1)