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)