ibus - command line utility for ibus
ibus COMMAND [OPTION]...
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)