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)

1.5.32-rc2                                          Jul 2022                                             IBUS(1)