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ibus (1)

Name

ibus - command line utility for ibus

Synopsis

ibus COMMAND [OPTION]...

Description

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
              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  --sys-
              tem  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 set-
              tings are avaiable with ibus-setup (1) utility.


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



ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+--------------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |     ATTRIBUTE VALUE      |
       +---------------+--------------------------+
       |Availability   | system/input-method/ibus |
       +---------------+--------------------------+
       |Stability      | Uncommitted              |
       +---------------+--------------------------+

SEE ALSO
       ibus-emoji(7)



NOTES
       Source  code  for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This     software     was    built    from    source    available    at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.   The  original   community
       source was downloaded from  https://github.com/ibus/ibus/releases/down-
       load/1.5.19/ibus-1.5.19.tar.gz.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at https://github.com/ibus/ibus.



1.5.19                             May 2017                            IBUS(1)