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NAME

6       ibus - command line utility for ibus
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SYNOPSIS

10       ibus COMMAND [OPTION]...
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DESCRIPTION

14       IBus is an Intelligent Input Bus. It is a new input framework for Linux
15       OS. It provides full featured and user friendly input method  user  in‐
16       terface.  It also may help developers to develop input method easily.
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19       ibus  is  a command line utility which can restart or exit ibus-daemon,
20       get or set the current ibus engine or list the ibus engines.
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23       Homepage: https://github.com/ibus/ibus/wiki
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COMMAND

27       help   Show the commands list.
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29       engine [ENGINE_NAME]
30              Show the curent ibus engine when ENGINE_NAME is not  given.  Set
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33       exit   Exit ibus-daemon.
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35       list-engine
36              Show ibus engines list.
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38       restart
39              Restart ibus-daemon.
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41       version
42              Show the ibus version.
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44       read-cache [--system|--file=FILE]
45              Show  the  content of the user registry cache if --system is not
46              given.  Show the content of the system registry cache if  --sys‐
47              tem  is  given.   Show  the content of the custom registry cache
48              FILE if --file=FILE is given.
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50       write-cache [--system|--file=FILE]
51              Save the user registry cache if --system is not given.  Save the
52              system  registry  cache  if  --system is given.  Save the custom
53              registry cache FILE if --file=FILE is given.
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55              By default, it reads the component XML files from  the  standard
56              component  directory  (/usr/share/ibus/component),  you  can set
57              IBUS_COMPONENT_PATH environment variable  for  custom  component
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60       address
61              Show the D-Bus address of ibus-daemon.
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63       read-config
64              Print the setting values in a gsettings configuration file.
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67              Reset the user setting values to the default ones in a gsettings
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70       watch  Under construction.
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72       emoji [--font=FONT|--lang=LANG|--help|--partial-match]
73              Launch IBus Emojier ( ibus-emoji (1) )  and  save  the  selected
74              emoji  to  your  clipboard. Can choose an emoji font with --font
75              option. Can choose a language of emoji annotations  with  --lang
76              option.      If      LANG="en",      IBus      Emojier     loads
77              /usr/share/ibus/dicts/emoji-en.dict  .   --partial-match  option
78              enables  to  match annotations with a partial string. These set‐
79              tings are available with ibus-setup (1) utility.
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BUGS

83       If you find a bug, please report it at https://github.com/ibus/ibus/is‐
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SEE ALSO

88       ibus-emoji(7)
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