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: http://code.google.com/p/ibus/

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.

       watch  Under construction.

       BUGS   If you find a bug, please report it at http://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/list.