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 --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.

       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 avaiable with ibus-setup  (1)
              utility.

BUGS

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

SEE ALSO

       ibus-emoji(7)