ibus (1)

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This file is distributed under the same license as the ibus
package.
Copyright (C) Takao Fujiwara <takao.fujiwara1@gmail.com>, 2013.
Copyright (c) Peng Huang <shawn.p.huang@gmail.com>, 2013.

NAME

SYNOPSIS

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: 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 --system 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.

BUGS